The Development of the European System of Human and Fundamental Rights in the Current Economic and Political Context

Volume 22, Issue 1, January 2016 is a Special Issue with the theme 'Fundamental Rights In Crisis'. Issue edited by: Elisabeth Lambert Abdelgawad, Gaëtan CliquennoisThere is a considerable wealth of legal and politico-scientific research on both the substantive standards and the institutional mechanisms which make up the three pillars of the European system of fundamental rights, i.e. national constitutions, the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) and European Union Treaties. A good deal of the literature has focused on each of the two supranational levels. As a result, both the consistency of the normative output in the form of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), and the impact that such output has had on national substantive standards is very well known.

This special issue of the European Law Journal has a series of articles exploring aspects of the theme 'Fundamental Rights In Crisis'.