Justice in the Balance : Democracy, Rule of Law, and the European Court of Human Rights.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greenberg, Jessica.

Series:

Stanford Studies in Human Rights Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European Court of Human Rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2025.

Summary:

Established as a post-World War II response to conflict and fascism, the European Court of Human Rights is routinely characterized as the most successful human rights institution in the world. Based in Strasbourg, France, its jurisdiction extends to over 700 million people on European soil across the 46 Council of Europe member countries. The Court is the crown jewel of the Council, an international organization dedicated to human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. And yet, for years, European institutions have been haunted by the specter of failure. In the shadow of rising populism, inequality, and war, faith in democracy and the rule of law has been shaken to its core. Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted over eight years with human rights advocates, lawyers, and judges at the European Court of Human Rights, this book asks: What kind of justice is possible through law? Drawing on participant observation, in-depth interviews, and archival research, Jessica Greenberg tracks two paradoxical experiences of the European human rights system and the Court: on the one hand, the Court as a bureaucratic "machine;" on the other, the Court as the "conscience of Europe." She argues that human rights frameworks fuel imaginative approaches to social change, and compel legal actors to creatively navigate institutions through advocacy, persuasion, and innovative interpretation of what the law is and what it should be.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half-title

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Foreword

Preface: Making Sense of Liberalism and Law

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Locating the European Court of Human Rights

1. Defining "Us": Culture and the Court

2. Bringing the Outside In: Council of Europe Expansion after the Cold War

3. Performing the Rule of Law: Communicative Modalities and Legal Publics

4. Enumerating Justice and the "Treadmill of Paradox": Human Rights and the Language of Numbers

5. Litigating Human Rights in Time: Strategic Litigation and Temporal Advocacy

6. Making Violence Visible: Antidiscrimination and Evidential Advocacy

Conclusion. Moving from Compromise to Complicity: Rule of Law as Fragile and Enduring

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Series Page

Back Cover.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5036-4376-X

OCLC:

1532833917