Download or read book The Evolution of the European Convention on Human Rights written by Ed Bates and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Convention on Human Rights is probably the most effective system of international human rights control created. This book examines the story of the evolution of the Convention over its first 50 years. It explains how the Convention system grew up and how it came to exert such an important influence on the States which subscribe to it.