Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 February 2017
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1 Lautsi v. Italy, App. No. 30814/06, Eur. Ct. H.R. ¶ 47 (2009), available at http://www.echr.coe.int/ECHR/homepage_en [hereinafter Lautsi].
2 Kokkinakis v. Greece, App. No. 14307/88, Eur. Ct. H.R. ¶ 31 (1993), available at http://www.echr.coe.int/ECHR/homepage_en.
3 Folgerø v. Norway, App. No. 15472/02, Eur. Ct. H.R. ¶¶ 90-100 (2007), available at http://www.echr.coe.int/ECHR/homepage_en.
4 See, e.g., Dickson v. United Kingdom, App. No. 44362/04, Eur. Ct. H.R. ¶ 78 (2007), available at http://www.echr.-coe.int/ECHR/homepage_en.
5 Lautsi, supra note 1, ¶¶ 38, 39.
6 Id. ¶ 47.
7 Id. ¶¶ 48-58.
8 Id. ¶ 35.
9 Id. ¶ 53.
10 Id. ¶ 56.
11 The request for referral has to be approved by a panel of five judges. European Convention on Human Rights art. 43, para. 2, Nov. 4, 1950, Europ. T.S. No. 5; 213 U.N.T.S. 221.
12 Darby v. Sweden, App. No. 11581/85 Eur. Comm’n H.R. ¶ 45 (1989), available at http://beta.religlaw.org/document.-php?DocumentID=1960.
13 Bundesverfassungsgericht [BVerfG] [German Federal Constitutional Court] May 12, 1987, 93 Entscheidungen des Bundesverfassungsgerichts [BVerfGE], 11 BvR 1087/91 (1987), available at http://www.utexas.edu/law/academics/centers/transnational/work_new/german/case.php?id=615.
14 See Christian Walter, From the Acceptance of Interdenominational Christian Schools to the Inadmissibility of Christian Crosses in the Public Schools, in Religion in the Public Sphere: A Comparative Analysis of German, Israeli, American and International Law 165 (Winfried Brugger & Michael Karayanni eds., 2007).