CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2009
| Author | Paprocka, Ada Malgorzata |
|---|---|
| Title | LIMITATIONS ON EXTREMIST MOVEMENTS POLITICAL ACTIVITY IN THE JURISPRUDENCE OF THE US SUPREME COURT AND THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS |
| Summary | The aim of this paper is to compare the jurisprudence of the US Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights in the field of states’ reactions to the activity of extremist political movements and to determine the factors that influenced different development of the case law in the two systems, linking them to the historical experiences of the US and Europe. In the first part it briefly examines the historical background of the protection of political rights of extremist political organizations both in US and in Europe. In the second part it describes the relevant provisions of the US Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights. Finally, the third part presents the development of the jurisprudence of the two Courts with emphasizing the different visions of democracy reflected in their reasoning. |
| Supervisor | Mazor, Lester |
| Department | Legal Studies LLM |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2009/paprocka_ada.pdf |
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