The newest, fourth edition of one of the key classic handbooks on the ECHR in the German language has been published: Frowein / Peukert, EMRK-Kommentar at N.P. Engel Verlag. In the spirit of its original authors, Jochen Abr. Frowein und Wolfgang Peukert, a new collective of authors, including several former judges of the European Court of Human Rights, has created this up-to-date edition. It is an endeavour that can be called titanic in the positive sense of the word, with this new edition following the previous one from 2009. With all the developments in the case-law and the extensions to the Convention by way of new Protocols, this has yielded a fully new book, that still pays tribute to its original authors.
The book provides a fully updated article-by-article analysis of the entire ECHR, both related to substantive rights and procedure, and includes chapters on the substantive provisions in the Protocols. Each chapter contains a detailed table of contents. This, combined with two indices, by both case/judgments names and by themes, makes the book very user-friendly. In addition, the chapters have a selection of relevant and mostly very recent literature (mostly, but not only, in German) at the end. The book is almost fully based on the Court's case-law and in that sense is really useful for practitioners who use the Convention in their work.
The authors of this very substantive volume (1470 pages) are Dorothee von Arnim, Anna Begemann, Beat Dold, Helen Keller, Christian Maierhöfer, Alexander Misic, Isabella Risini, Dean Spielmann.
