... discourse legitimacy judicial openness to comparative inspiration factors procedure judicial biographies public/private law divide human rights constitutional adjudication Whether or not judges use comparative arguments is determined by a complex interplay of a number of legal and extra-legal...

... Germany Italy Professorenrecht Northern Ireland Portugal Spain Teitgen P H Russia Cassin René Judicialization Grand Chamber Stone Sweet Alec European Court of Human Rights legitimacy judicial biographies legal diplomacy evolution of the European Convention sociology of courts...

... the Court produces is outlined. Docket Independence judicial Judicial activism Judicial biographies Maastricht Treaty Transitional Period Treaty of Lisbon Treaty of Rome United States of America Reappointment Accountability European Central Bank FIDE France Netherlands Gand Joseph Lagrange...

...-dependency per system. Where many ex-ministers have been named in the past, as in France, that trend continues. Where occasionally some were named in the past, as in Germany and Italy, that also did not change. ex-ministers Presidents of constitutional courts Justice Minister judicial biographies path...