OUVRAGE : L. Mälksoo, W. Benedek (eds.), Russia and the European Court of Human Rights: The Strasbourg Effect

Lauri MÄLKSOO, Wolfgang BENEDEK

Why has there been a human rights backlash in Russia despite the country having been part of the European human rights protection system since the late 1990s? To what extent does Russia implement judgments of the Strasbourg Court, and to what extent does it resist the implementation? This fascinating study investigates Russia's turbulent relationship with the European Court of Human Rights and examines whether the Strasbourg court has indeed had the effect of increasing the protection of human rights in Russia. Researchers and scholars of law and political science with a particular interest in human rights and Russia will benefit from this in-depth exploration of the background of this subject.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Lauri Mälksoo, Introduction: Russia, Strasbourg and the paradox of a human rights backlash 

Petra Roter, Russia in the Council of Europe: participation a la carte 

Anton Burkov, The use of European human rights law in Russian courts 

Sergei Marochkin, ECtHR and the Russian Constitutional Court: duet or duel? 

Alexei Trochev, The Russian Constitutional Court and the Strasbourg court: judicial pragmatism in a dual state 

Mikhail Antonov, Philosophy behind human rights: Valery Zorkin vs the West 

Bill Bowring, Russia's cases in the ECtHR and the question of socialization 

Elisabet Fura, Rait Maruste, Russia's impact on the Strasbourg system: as seen by two former judges of the European Court of Human Rights 

Philip Leach, Egregious human rights violations in Chechnya: the continuing pursuit of justice 

Vladislav Starzhenetskiy, Property rights in Russia: reconsidering the socialist legal tradition 

Dmitri Bartenev, LGBT rights in Russia and European human rights standards 

Benedikt Harzl, Nativist ideological responses to European/liberal human rights discourses in contemporary Russia 

Wolfgang Benedek, General conclusions

Lauri MÄLKSOO, Wolfgang BENEDEK (eds.), Russia and the European Court of Human Rights: The Strasbourg Effect, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2017 (440 pp.)