Full-Face Concealment Ban in Public Places in Europe: How the European Court of Human Rights Has Failed to Do Its Job
Penn Statim: The Online Companion to the Penn State Law Review, 2017
7 Pages Posted: 23 Jun 2017
Date Written: March 20, 2017
Abstract
This article examines the S.A.S v. France judgment, decided by the European Court of Human Rights on July 1st 2014. The author challenges the Court’s legal reasoning and argues that the European Court of Human Rights has failed to do its job as a guarantor of minimum protection of religious freedom for Muslim women in Europe.
Keywords: Full-Face Concealment Ban, S.A.S v. France, Religious freedom, ECHR, Article 9, Niqab, Niqab law, Human Rights, Living Together, France, Muslim women
JEL Classification: K33, K39, K42, K10, K19, K40, K49
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