Right to Respect for Private and Family Life, Home and Correspondence – A Practical Guide to the Article 8 Case-Law of the European Court of Human Rights, Päivi Hirvelä and Satu Heikkilä

More than any other provision enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the Article 8 right to respect for private and family life, home and correspondence has evolved by means of judicial interpretation into a myriad of distinct rights. In fact, no other provision has inspired allegations of judicial activism in the Strasbourg Court as much as Article 8, nor demonstrated the Convention’s potential as a ‘living instrument’ to keep pace with societal and ethical developments in the Council of Europe States. By offering a comprehensive examination of the different facets of Article 8 as they emerge from Strasbourg litigation to date, the book Right to Respect for Private and Family Life, Home and Correspondence – A Practical Guide to the Article 8 Case-Law of the European Court of Human Rights, authored by Päivi Hirvelä and Satu Heikkilä and published by Intersentia in 2022, makes an important contribution to the human rights literature.