Dia Anagnostou

This paper analyzes comparatively the indirect effects of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judgments related to religion and education in four countries: Greece, Italy, Romania, and Turkey. It examines whether and how ECtHR jurisprudence on religion and education influences the views and the strategies deployed by various categories of ac...

A growing non-legal scholarship explores the domestic implementation of international court judgments in national law and policy. Yet little attention has been paid to the indirect effects of European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) case law: namely, the ways in which its judgments may raise public consciousness, change how social actors articulate t...

This chapter explores the domestic implementation of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judgments that are related to overcrowding and poor material conditions in European prisons. The first part describes the processes and mechanisms of domestic implementation of ECtHR’s judgments, their supervision and monitoring by the Committee of Minis...

This chapter explores how processes of social and legal mobilization have influenced and transformed national constitutional parameters of gender equality in Europe. It analyses the social-legal and discursive strategies that women’s organizations and feminist groups in different European countries have deployed to challenge constitutional provisio...

Why do courts sometimes decide to liberalize migrants’ rights, while at others restricting such rights, even contrary to the policies of elected governments? This article addresses this question in the context of Greece. It explores the causes and consequences of judicial decision making in a major decision of the Council of State that suspended th...

Local government plays a key role in the integration of migrants in Europe. Municipalities have assumed an increasingly pro-active role in dealing with the reception of newcomers, as well as with the challenges facing the long-term integration of legally residing migrants. Local and municipal authorities, independently or in cooperation with other...

Over the past couple of years, international law and international relations scholarship has shifted its focus from the question of whether human rights treaties bring any state-level improvements at all to investigations in the domestic context of the factors and dynamics influencing state compliance. In this direction, and focusing on the Europea...

Over the past couple of years, the European Convention of Human Rights (hereafter ECHR or Convention) and its judicial arm in Strasbourg have attracted renewed scholarly interest. The European Court of Human Rights (hereafter ECtHR or Court) is a paradigmatic instance of a transnational tribunal that fundamentally differs from an international cour...

Courts have often served as an alternative arena for minorities to claim their rights when other avenues of political participation are closed or ineffective. While not specifically intended to protect minorities, the European Court of Human Rights (hereafter ECtHR) has pre-eminently provided such an arena. Over time, it has developed a substantial...

Human rights are not an ideology or a thought system: they are more a matter of praxis than of logos. To have any meaning in the lives of individuals and communities, they must be embedded in practice. A judgment of the European Court of Human Rights is not an end in itself, but a promise of future change, the starting point of a process which shou...

“Since the turn of the millennium, the European Court of Human Rights has been the transnational setting for a European-wide ‘rights revolution‘. One of the most remarkable characteristics of the European Convention of Human Rights and its highly acclaimed judicial tribunal in Strasbourg is the extensive obligations of the contracting states to giv...

This case study examines the regional reforms towards decentralization and the creation of sub-national institutions within the framework of EU structural policy in the Greek region of Thrace during the 1990s. Inhabited by a Greek Christian majority and a Turkish Muslim minority, the region in the late 1980s and early 1990s witnessed sharp division...

This volume examines the effects of Strasbourg Court jurisprudence for protecting the rights of marginalised individuals and minorities. It argues that its consequences vary depending upon the diverse social, legal and institutional context that shapes litigation and judicial approaches in each country. © 2010 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The N...

In the past fifteen years, European integration has been characterised by two seemingly contradictory but arguably interrelated phenomena of supranational market integration on the one hand, and growing minority mobilisation at the local and subnational level, on the other. The former is driven by economic imperatives to redefine the structures of...

RICHARD CLOGG (ed.), Minorities in Greece--Aspects of a Plural Society (Hurst & Company, London, 2003), ISBN 1-850-65706-8 (pb), £16.95DIMITRI PENTZOPOULOS, The Balkan Exchange of Minorities and its Impact on Greece (Hurst & Company, London, 2002, 2nd edn), 300 pp., ISBN 1-850-65674-6 (pb), £20.00Pentzopoulos' study and the volume edited by Richard...