Homosexuality and the European Court of Human Rights

Paul Johnson is Professor of Sociology at the University of York. His current research focuses on the relationship between law, sexuality and social control.　He is the author of Love, Heterosexuality and Society (Routledge, 2005), Genetic Policing (Willan Publishing, 2008), and co-editor of Policing Sex (Routledge, 2012).

• Table of cases. Introduction. PART 1: MAKING THE HOMOSEXUAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS 1. Emerging voices: homosexuality and the Commission 1955-1980. 2. An ontological struggle: the Court and the homosexual since 1981. PART 2: METHODS AND MORALS 3. Homosexuality in the judicial laboratory: instruments, interpretations, and evolutions. PART 3: EXISTING JURISPRUDENCE AND POTENTIAL FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS 4. ‘An essentially private manifestation of the human personality’: the limitations of Article 8. 5. The anti-discrimination provisions of the Convention: Article 14 and Protocol 12. 6. A right to marriage? Same-sex relationships and Article 12. 7. Expression, Assembly and Association: Articles 10 and 11. 8. Humiliation and debasement: degrading treatment and Article 3 Conclusion. Bibliography. Appendix 1: European Convention on Human Rights (truncated). Appendix 2: Chronological list of Decisions and Judgments of the Strasbourg organs in respect of homosexuality. Index

"Johnson’s book provides an incredibly thorough discussion of the sheer range of cases dealing with homosexuality that have come before the Court since its inception. It is clearly a useful and thought-provoking text for anybody interested in the Court’s jurisprudence in regard to homosexuality and its engagement with ‘moral’ issues more generally" - Flora Renz, Social and Legal Studies, 2014, Vol.23(2), 275­277.