The first sustained critique of how domestic courts in the EU apply the European Convention on Human Rights and interact with the European Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg. This book considers the British, French, and German approaches to the ECHR and shows that domestic courts apply and develop the Convention faithfully and positively.

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Thesis of the Book


• 3: Incorporation: Conceptual Relationship between ECHR and National Law


• 4: Evolutionary Interpretation: 'The Convention is a Living Instrument'


• 5: Proportionality


• 6: Margin of Appreciation


• 7: Autonomous Concepts


• 8: Dialogue


• 9: Conclusion

Eirik Bjorge is the Shaw Foundation Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College, University of Oxford. He is the author of The Evolutionary Interpretation of Treaties (Oxford University Press, 2014).