Schmahl and Breuer's edited volume gives a broad overview and serves as an insight into the most prominent regional international organisation. Because of its thematic breadth, it may serve on the one hand as a practitioner's handbook . . . On the other hand, it serves as a means of (first) information about certain areas of the Council of Europe for anyone interested in the work, objectives, institutions and suborgans, and conventions of the Council of Europe. Thomas Hoppe, German Yearbook of International Law