The European Court of Human Rights and its impact on domestic legal systems
| Autor | Sarah Casella |
| Cargo | Public Law Professor at Le Mans Université (Paris, France). Co-Director of Themis-UM. PhD in Law from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. E-mail: sarah.cassella@univ-lemans.fr. |
| Páginas | 3-23 |
Rev. Direito Econ. Socioambiental, Curitiba, v. 11, n. 2, p. 3-23, maio/ago. 2020
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doi: 10.7213/rev.dir.econ.soc.v11i2.27755
The European Court of Human Rights and its impact
on domestic legal systems
A Corte Europeia de Direitos Humanos e seu impacto em
ordenamentos jurídicos internos
Sarah Cassella*
Le Mans Université (França)
sarah.cassella@univ-lemans.fr
Recebido: 02/10/2020 Aprovado: 20/12/2020
Received: 10/02/2020 Approved: 12/20/2020
Abstract
The European Court of Human Rights was created in order to supervise a rather classical legal
instrument. Bu t some peculiarit ies sin ce it s orig ins and several evolutions led to the
establishment of a true “European public order” under its influence. This paper questions the
possibility to consider the ECtHR as a “constitutional judge” and analyzes some of the most
important changes it has produced in the domestic legal systems – above all in the p ublic
institutions – of the States part ies to the European convention o n human rights.
Keywords: European Court of Human Rights; domesti c legal s ystems; public l aw; const itutio n;
balance of powers.
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* Public Law Professor at Le Mans Université (Paris, France). Co-Director of Themis-UM. PhD in Law from
Université Paris 1 Pa nthéon-Sorbonne. E-mail : sarah.cassell a@univ-lemans.fr.
Como citar este artigo/How to cite this article: CASSELLA, Sarah. The European Court of Human
Rights and its impact on domestic l egal systems. Revista de Direito Econômico e Socioambiental,
Curitiba, v. 11, n. 2, p. 3-23, maio/ago. 2020. doi: 10.7213/rev.dir.econ.soc.v11i2.27755
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CASSELLA, S.
Rev. Direito Econ. Socioambiental, Curitiba, v. 11, n. 2, p. 3-23, maio/ago. 2020
Resumo
O Tribunal Europeu de Direitos H umanos foi criado com o objetivo de supervisionar um
instrumento jurídico bastante clássico. Mas algumas peculiaridades desde suas origens e
várias evoluções levaram ao estabelecimento de uma verdadeira “ordem pública europeia”
sob sua influência. Este artigo questiona a possibilidade de considerar o TEDH como um “juiz
constitucional” e analisa algumas das mudanças mais importantes que ele produziu nos
sistemas jurídicos internos - sobretudo nas instituições públicas - dos Estados signatários da
Convenção Europeia sobre Direitos Humanos.
Palavras-chave: Tribunal Europeu de Direitos Humanos; sistemas jurídicos nacionais; Direito
Público; Constituição; equilíbrio entre poderes.
Contents
1. Introduction. 1.1. National consitutions. 1.2. The ECHR. 1.3. European Union law. 2. The
ECtHR as a « Constitutional Judge ». 2.1. Extension of the scope of rights and establishment
of new ones. 2.2. “Objectivization” of the Court’s decision. 2.3. The supremacy of the EC HR
over domestic constitutions. 3. Shift s of th e b alance of pow ers. 3.1. The judiciary. 3.2. The
constitutional judge. 3.3. The legislative. 4. Limits to the peculiarity of Public Law. 4.1.
Deterritorialization. 4.2. Common standards for public and private procedures . 5. Conclusi on.
References.
1. Introduction
In regard to their controversy on the judicial use of comparative
constitutional law, justices Bryer and Scalia of the United States Supreme
court used to refer, among several foreign “constitutional courts”, to the
European Court of Human Rights (hereafter ECtHR) (MURKENS, 2008). At the
time this was surprising from a Europe an perspective : the drafters of the
force in 1953, meant to create classical international mechanisms. First of all,
the conve ntional obligations were binding on State or gans and authori ties:
the main traditional fear concerned State v iolations of human rights.
Secondly, at the beginning there was only an interstate judicial mechanism
of enforcement comprising the European commission of human rights and
the Europe an court of human rig hts. The possibility to file individual
complaints of violations of the ECHR was optional and depended on the
choice of every State party. Only through Protocol 11 did this mechanism
become mandatory for all parties in 1998. Thirdly, the jurisdiction of the
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