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Andreas von Staden, Jonas Christoffersen and Mikael Rask Madsen (eds), The European Court of Human Rights between Law and Politics, Human Rights Law Review, Volume 12, Issue 3, September 2012, Pages 611–617, https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngs017
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Over the last fifteen years, research on the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR or ‘Court’) has become increasingly multi- and interdisciplinary. While traditional legal analyses of the Court’s jurisprudence continue to proliferate, there has been a growing interest in analysing the political and sociological factors that affect the development, operation and effectiveness of the Court and of its judgments. Stimulated by the multifaceted research on its prominent European sister institution, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU, formerly known as ECJ), as well as by the general increase in adjudication and arbitration as institutionalised modes of dispute settlement in world politics, this more recent literature has examined such issues as the political origins of the system set up by the European Convention on Human Rights 1950 (‘the Convention system’), the nature of the principal-agent relationship between the Court and respondent states, the ECtHR as a means of increasing democratic participation, the politics of judicial appointments, judicial behaviour on the bench, as well as the determinants of compliance with the Court’s judgments.
