Protecting Rights in Strasbourg: Developing a Research Agenda for Analyzing International Litigation from Russia

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Freek van der Vet

Abstract

The Russian Federation has the most cases pending before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Recent studies on the rule of law in Russia indicate that Russians are vigorously litigating before domestic courts and national human rights institutions, despite low levels of trust in the judicial system. Yet, is claim making inside the country the cause of the burgeoning caseload pending before the Court? This review essay evaluates the different types of judgments and claims coming from Russia and maps out recent literature on the various types of litigation with the European Court of Human Rights. In particular, it puts forward a research agenda for studying the actors behind litigation and the types of cases they bring to the Court. Furthermore, the essay proposes how we might analyze some of these complaints before the ECtHR from a sociolegal perspective. In English.

Keywords

European Court of Human Rights, European Convention on Human Rights, Public Interest Litigation, Rule of Law, Implementation, Russian Federation


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