1st Edition
The European Convention of Human Rights Regime Reform of Immigration and Minority Policies from Afar
1. Minorities and migrants in the Strasbourg Court
2. Transnational litigation and human rights experimentalism
3. From politics to law: ECHR reform and legal opportunities
Part I – Litigation and legal mobilization
4. Seeking protection of minorities and victims of armed conflict
5. Legal strategies for migrants’ rights and policy change
Part II – Judgment implementation and domestic reform
6. Tackling Roma segregation in education
7. Pressuring for asylum and immigration detention reform
8. The ECHR as an experimentalist governance regime
Bibliography
Annex: A note on methodology and data collection
Index
Biography
Dia Anagnostou is Associate Professor, Panteion University of Social Sciences, Athens, Greece, and Senior Research Fellow, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), Greece.
'Through the lens of legal experimentalism, this compelling book analyzes immigration and minority policies and the European Convention of Human Rights. Law emerges from a transnational process of continuous contestation and learning of international legal institutions and local and national actors. Because it offers an instructive contrast to the experimentation movement in the social sciences, this highly original and carefully developed application of the experimentalist turn appeals to readers interested in both European law and general legal and social analysis.'
Peter J. Katzenstein, Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies, Cornell University
'This is an innovative and impressive book, which analyzes the functioning and effectiveness of the European Court of Human Rights in the area of minorities and migrants’ rights from an "experimentalist" perspective, and with particular focus on civil society mobilization. During a time of populist and nationalist illiberalism, the author presents a compelling theory of the effectiveness of strategic litigation before the ECtHR in these two important fields. The book should be of great interest to lawyers and political scientists who want to understand the role of courts and litigation in social change, and particularly to those interested in examining the effectiveness of regional and international human rights systems.'
Gráinne de Búrca, Florence Ellinwood Allen Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
