Protecting Rights in Strasbourg: Developing a Research Agenda for Analyzing International Litigation from Russia
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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.
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European Court of Human Rights, European Convention on Human Rights, Public Interest Litigation, Rule of Law, Implementation, Russian Federation
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Freek van der Vet, University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute
Freek van der Vet is a PhD candidate working at the Department of Social Research and Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland. His current research analyzes how Russian human rights defenders litigate before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on behalf of victims of grave atrocities that occurred during the two Chechen conflicts, victims of inhuman and degrading treatment, and victims of discrimination. He is author of “Seeking Life, Finding Justice: Russian NGO Litigation and Chechen Disappearances before the European Court of Human Rights” (2012) Human Rights Review 13 (3): 303-325, “Transitional Justice in Chechnya: NGO Political Advocacy for Implementing Chechen Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights” (2013) Review of Central and East European Law 38 (3-4):363-388, and “Holding on to Legalism: the Politics of Russian Litigation on Torture and Discrimination before the European Court of Human Rights” (2014) Social & Legal Studies, 23 (3): 361-381.