European Human Rights Justice and Privatisation
The Growing Influence of Foreign Private Funds

Offers a new understanding of the relationships between litigation strategies, growing private funding and European human rights justice.

Gaëtan Cliquennois (Author)

9781108739450, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 15 December 2022

302 pages, 4 tables
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.442 kg

With the decline of public funding and new strategies pursued by interest groups, foreign private foundations and donors have become growing contributors to the European human rights justice system. These groups have created their own litigation teams, have increasingly funded NGOs litigating the European Courts, and have contributed to the content and supervision of the European judgements, which all have direct effects on the growth and procedure of human rights. European Human Rights Justice and Privatisation analyses the impacts of this private influence and the resultant effects on international relations between states, including the orientation of European jurisprudence towards Eastern countries and the promotion of private and neo-liberal interests. This book looks at the direct and indirect threat of this private influence on the independency of the European justice and on the protection of human rights in Europe.

Part I. The Procedural Aspect of the Growing Influence of Private Foundations on the European Human Rights Justice System: 1. The increasing influence of private foundations in the realm of justice
2. The creeping private influence on the inputs of the ECtHR and the CJEU
3. The influence of private foundations on the outputs of the ECtHR and the CJEU
Part II. The Substantive Dimension of the Growing Influence of Private Foundations on the European Human Rights Justice: 4. The growing influence exerted by the private sector on the reform and structure of the ECtHR and the CJEU
5. Effects of the growing influence of private interests on the orientation of the European case law
6. The effects of private litigation on domestic policies and international relations: the rise of tensions between the EU, the US and Eastern Countries 7. The relationships between litigation funded by private foundations and economic and political interests pursued by them
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Subject Areas: Human rights & civil liberties law [LNDC], International human rights law [LBBR], Law [L], EU & European institutions [JPSN2], Politics & government [JP]