Rights and courts in pursuit of social change : legal mobilisation in the multi-level European system / edited by Dia Anagnostou.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anagnostou, Dia, editor.

Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law.

Series:

Oñati international series in law and society.

Oñati international series in law and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European Court of Human Rights.

Human rights--Europe.

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Over the past few decades, European countries have witnessed a proliferation of legal norms concerning marginalised individuals and minorities who increasingly invoke them in front of courts to assert their rights and claim protection. The present volume explores the relationship between law, rights and social mobilisation in Europe. It specifically enquires into the extent and ways in which legal processes and entitlements are mobilised by less privileged social actors to advance their rights claims and pursue social change. Most distinctly, it explores such processes in the context of the multi-level European system, characterised by the existence of multiple legal and judicial arenas at the national, subnational and supranational/transnational level. In such a complex system of law and governance in Europe, concepts like legal opportunity structures, as well as the factors shaping them need to be reconceptualised. How does the multi-level European context distinctly shape the nature and salience of rights, as well as their mobilisation by individuals and minority actors?

Contents:

Law and rights' claiming on behalf of minorities in the multi-level European system

Dia Anagnostou

Linguistic minorities in Western Europe: Expansion of rights without (much) litigation?

Bruno de Witte

Legal mobilisation at the subnational level: The case of language rights in the Spanish autonomous community of Navarre

Xabier Arzoz

Rights on the left? Social movements, law and lawyers after 1968 in France

Liora Israël

A tool-box for legal and political mobilisation in European equality law

Mark Dawson, Elise Muir and Monica Claes

European courts and the rights of migrants and asylum seekers in Greece

Evangelia Pscyhogiopoulou

From Belfast to Diyarbakir and Grozny via Strasbourg: Transnational legal mobilisation against state violations in contexts of armed conflict

Activists and lawyers in the ECtHR: The struggle for gay rights

Loveday Hodson

Law and rights as opportunity and promise for minorities in Europe? Concluding observations and research agendas

Dia Anagnostou.

Notes:

"A series published for the Oñati Institute for the Sociology of Law."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-236) and index.

ISBN:

9781474201162

1474201164

9781782251866

1782251863

OCLC:

1154943077