Post-Secularism and the European Court of Human Rights: Or How God Never Really Went Away.
This article analyses the critical yet elusive notions of state neutrality, secularism and religious coercion under the European Convention in light of the European Court of Human Rights recent decision in Lautsi v Italy. We contend that the real concern in the Italian crucifix case was not the infr...
| Publicado en: | Modern Law Review Vol. 75; no. 6; pp. 1064 - 1099 |
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