Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Christoffersen & Madsen: The European Court of Human Rights between Law and Politics

Jonas Christoffersen (Danish Institute for Human Rights) & Mikael Rask Madsen (Univ. of Copenhagen - Law) have published The European Court of Human Rights between Law and Politics (Oxford Univ. Press 2011). Contents include:
  • Jonas Christoffersen & Mikael Rask Madsen, Introduction: The European Court of Human Rights between Law and Politics
  • Ed Bates, The Birth of the European Convention on Human Rights
  • Mikael Rask Madsen, The Protracted Institutionalisation of the Strasbourg Court: From the Diplomacy of Law to Integrationist Jurisprudence
  • Erik Voeten, Politics, Judicial Behaviour, and Institutional Design
  • Rachel A. Cichowski, Civil Society and the European Court of Human Rights
  • Anthony Lester, The European Court of Human Rights after 50 Years
  • Robert Harmsen, The Reform of the Convention System: Institutional Restructuring and the (Geo-)Politics of Human Rights
  • Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez, Constitutional v. International? When Unified Reformatory Rationales Mismatch the Plural Paths of Legitimacy of ECHR Law
  • Laurent Scheeck, Diplomatic Intrusions, Dialogues and Fragile Equilibriums: The European Court as a Constitutional Actor of the European Union
  • Jonas Christoffersen, Individual and Constitutional Justice: Can the Dynamics of ECHR Adjudication be Reversed?
  • Luzius Wildhaber, Rethinking the European Court of Human Rights