Previously issued in print: 2015.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The first critical study of the 1985 international treaty that guarantees the status of local self-government (local autonomy). Chris Himsworth analyses the text of the 1985 European Charter of Local Self-Government and its Additional Protocol; traces the Charter's historical emergence; and explains how it has been applied and interpreted, especially in a process of monitoring/treaty enforcement by the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities but also in domestic courts, throughout Europe. Locating the Charter's own history within the broader recent history of the Council of Europe and the European Union, the text closes with an assessment of the Charter's future prospects.

Specialized.

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