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

Murphy, Th�r�se; � Cuinn, Gear�id

Abstract

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’.

Citation

Murphy, T., & Ó Cuinn, G. Works in progress: new technologies and the European Court of Human Rights. Human Rights Law Review, 10(4), https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngq038

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Deposit Date: Apr 10, 2013
• Journal: Human Rights Law Review
• Print ISSN: 1461-7781
• Electronic ISSN: 1461-7781
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 4
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngq038
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1012936
• Publisher URL: http://hrlr.oxfordjournals.org/content/10/4/601.full.pdf+html
• Additional Information: This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in the Human Rights Law Review following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version: T. Murphy & G. Ó Cuinn, Works in progress: new technologies and the European Court of Human Rights’ (2010) Human Rights Law Review 10(4), 601-638, is available online at: http://hrlr.oxfordjournals.org/content/10/4/601.full.pdf+html