Some 80 million people live on European islands. It thus comes as no surprise that a number of cases brought before the European Court of Human Rights developed on and/or pertain to islands. What is surprising, though, is that this jurisprudential corpus has not been explored with a view to assessing whether islandness has or should have a role in the implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights on islands. The present paper contemplates the strengths of an islandness-based approach in the implementation of human rights through the mapping of the weaknesses, the potentials and the lost opportunities in the case law of the Court with respect to such an approach. In this context, findings from the field of Island Studies are also considered. By focusing on the ECHR habitat, the present paper exemplifies, in particular, the untapped potential of an islandness-based approach in the development of international human rights law in general.

大约有 8000 万人生活在欧洲岛屿上。因此，向欧洲人权法院提起的许多案件都是在岛屿上发生和/或与岛屿有关，这也就不足为奇了。然而，令人惊讶的是，尚未对这一法理学资料进行探讨，以评估岛屿是否在或应该在《欧洲岛屿人权公约》的实施中发挥作用。本文件通过对法院判例法中关于这种做法的弱点、潜力和失去的机会的分析，探讨了基于岛屿的做法在落实人权方面的优势。在这种背景下，还考虑了岛屿研究领域的发现。通过关注 ECHR 栖息地，本文特别举例说明了：