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Silvia Steininger, Silvia Steininger, Review of Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen. The 3 Regional Human Rights Courts in Context: Justice That Cannot Be Taken for Granted, European Journal of International Law, Volume 35, Issue 4, November 2024, Pages 1063–1068, https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chae062
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There are some books that make your blood run cold when you are at the end of your doctoral degree. They change the state of the literature entirely, uncovering in one broad sweep what has taken you years to slowly decipher, and manage to do so in an accessible, compact and beautiful way that makes you wonder why no one else has written a book like this before. The combination of decades-long expertise and robust scholarly authority produces an exceptional piece of scholarship that you wish you had had at the beginning of your PhD journey.
Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen’s The 3 Regional Human Rights Courts in Context: Justice That Cannot Be Taken for Granted was this book for me. This book review aims to do justice to this highly impressive book, a book that makes a significant contribution to comparative regional human rights law, shows extraordinary commitment to multilingual scholarship and explores individual agency in shaping institutional structures. I will also critically reflect on three aspects of the book, which in my view suffers from maximalist ambition, methodological vagueness and conceptual fuzziness.
