Droit communautaire des droits fondamentaux - Recueil de decisions de la Cour de justice des Communautes europeennes. (book review) The European Court of Justice on the European Convention on Human Rights - Who said what, when? (book review)

Abstract

These two volumes both aim to collect the case law of the ECJ on the protection of human rights in the EC, with this restriction that the volume edited by Guild and Lesieur - as the title indicates - is limited to the case law explicitly involving the European Convention on Human Rights; whereas the collection Droit communautaire des droits fondamentaux has cast the net much wider. Both books are valuable reference tools, especially for those not having access to CD-ROM editions of the case law or on-line access (provided they have elaborate search tools) to complete versions of the case law. Even for those having access to such databases, books like those under review have the advantage of being printed and therefore better to read and thumb through, and more importantly: the editors of both books have applied more important and more relevant intellectual criteria than the search tools of digital bases seem to be unable to cope with. Nevertheless, both books have their limitations.