All Appeals Lead to Strasbourg? Unpacking the Impact of the European Court of Human Rights on Russia
35 Pages
Posted: 18 Jun 2009
Last revised: 6 Feb 2015
School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nazarbayev University
Date Written: June 18, 2009
Abstract
The author explores how Russian government officials and judges interact with the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and argues that the Russian judiciary may be the most ECtHR-friendly branch of Russian government. Russian judges increasingly refer to the jurisprudence of the ECtHR, despite facing a host of pressures to do otherwise. As a result, the Russian legal system’s adherence to the standards of the 1950 convention is a complicated work in progress that develops in fits and starts and in which those in power wrestle with the question of their legal autonomy to limit the domestication of European human rights standards in Russia’s governance.
Keywords: European Court of Human Rights, judicial independence, litigation, Russia, Supreme Court
JEL Classification: K41
Suggested Citation:
Suggested Citation
Trochev, Alexei, All Appeals Lead to Strasbourg? Unpacking the Impact of the European Court of Human Rights on Russia (June 18, 2009). Demokratizatsiya, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 145-178, Spring 2009; Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1082. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1421342
