"This volume compiles the papers and comments delivered and the conclusions reached at the seminar "The Status of International Treaties on Human Rights", which was organised in Coimbra, Portugal, on 7 and 8 October 2005 by the Venice Commission in co-operation with the Ius Centium Coimbrigae Centre and the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra and the International Association of Constitutional Law"--P. [4] of Cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introductory address / Gianni Buquicchio -- International human rights treaties: a special category of internationl treaty? / Alexandre Kiss -- Human rights treaties and state succession / Menno T. Kamminga -- Human rights treaties and the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties: conflict or harmony? / Martin Scheinin -- The territorial scope of human rights obligations: the case of the European Convention on Human Rights / Christos L. Rozakis -- Human rights treaties: are they or should they be given a special status in international law? / Rui Manuel Moura Ramos -- Constitutional supremacy of human rights treaties / José Manuel M. Cardoso da Costa -- Execution of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights / Michele de Salvia -- Incorporation of human rights treaties into domestic law prior to their ratification / Gret Haller -- The direct applicability of human rights treaties / Eliska Wagnerova -- The status of international treaties on human rights and their influence on national legislation and practice in Georgia / Konstantin Korkelia -- The status of human rights treaties in domestic legal systems / Giorgio Malinverni -- International treaties and agreements making trade and foreign aids conditional on respect for human rights / Cesare Pinelli -- Are there differentiations among human rights? / Dinah Shelton -- the legal status of the European Social Charter: taking interdependence and indivisibility of human rights seriously / Gerard Quinn -- Human rights provisions in conventional sources of international criminal law and their effects on international criminal justice / Vojin Dimitrijevic and Marko Milanovic -- The status of international treaties on human rights: the hierarchy of rules of international law / Pieter van Dijk