European populism and human rights / / edited by Jure Vidmar.

• Superior document: International studies in human rights ; Volume 130
• VerfasserIn: Vidmar, Jure,
• TeilnehmendeR: Vidmar, Jure,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill Nijhoff,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: International studies in human rights ; Volume 130.
• Physical Description: x, 351 s.

"A definition of Europe can be geographic, historic, political and/ or legal. This book understands Europe as Member States of the Council of Europe and thus states party to the European Convention of Human Rights (echr, the Convention). Unlike the European Union (EU), the Council of Europe was explicitly created with the aim of human rights protection.1 At present, it has forty- seven Member States which are ipso facto party to the echr".

Table of Contents

Democracy and the European public order -- Populism and universal human rights law -- Diversity in Europe : from pluralism to populism -- The public participant versus the populist government of an illiberall democracy -- Enough about populism -- The democratic potential of transnational populism -- Franternité (dé-) naissante : populist potentialities of human rights -- Freedom or transformation? Conflicting tendencies in United Nations Human Rights Discourse -- Political rhetoric, freedom of expression and hate speech against religious belivers -- The European Court of Human Rights and the rise of authoritarianism in Russia -- The effect of populism on the rule of law, separation of powers and judicial independence in Hungary and Poland -- "In the eyes of the perpetrtor" : judicial recognition of the identity-based nature of genocide -- Final remarks on populism's effect on human rights and democracy in Europe.