Works in progress: new technologies and the European Court of Human Rights

A field—new technologies and human rights or, more broadly, law and technology—is in the process of being framed. Should the European Court of Human Rights be seen as part of that process? To find out, we searched the Court’s case-law using HUDOC, a database on the Council of Europe website which co...

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Main Authors: Murphy, Thérèse, Ó Cuinn, Gearóid
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press 2010
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1961/
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description A field—new technologies and human rights or, more broadly, law and technology—is in the process of being framed. Should the European Court of Human Rights be seen as part of that process? To find out, we searched the Court’s case-law using HUDOC, a database on the Council of Europe website which contains both judgments and admissibility decisions. We entered 155 keywords, all in English, and in this article we report and analyse what we found. The overall conclusion is twofold: first, it is too early to attempt a complete characterisation of the Court’s position on new technologies; and second, the Court is however ‘one to watch’.
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spelling nottingham-19612020-05-04T20:25:43Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1961/ Works in progress: new technologies and the European Court of Human Rights Murphy, Thérèse Ó Cuinn, Gearóid A field—new technologies and human rights or, more broadly, law and technology—is in the process of being framed. Should the European Court of Human Rights be seen as part of that process? To find out, we searched the Court’s case-law using HUDOC, a database on the Council of Europe website which contains both judgments and admissibility decisions. We entered 155 keywords, all in English, and in this article we report and analyse what we found. The overall conclusion is twofold: first, it is too early to attempt a complete characterisation of the Court’s position on new technologies; and second, the Court is however ‘one to watch’. Oxford University Press 2010 Article PeerReviewed Murphy, Thérèse and Ó Cuinn, Gearóid (2010) Works in progress: new technologies and the European Court of Human Rights. Human Rights Law Review, 10 (4). pp. 601-638. ISSN 1461-7781 http://hrlr.oxfordjournals.org/content/10/4/601.full.pdf+html doi:10.1093/hrlr/ngq038 doi:10.1093/hrlr/ngq038
spellingShingle Murphy, Thérèse
Ó Cuinn, Gearóid
Works in progress: new technologies and the European Court of Human Rights
title Works in progress: new technologies and the European Court of Human Rights
title_full Works in progress: new technologies and the European Court of Human Rights
title_fullStr Works in progress: new technologies and the European Court of Human Rights
title_full_unstemmed Works in progress: new technologies and the European Court of Human Rights
title_short Works in progress: new technologies and the European Court of Human Rights
title_sort works in progress: new technologies and the european court of human rights
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1961/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1961/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1961/