Publication details
The Populist Challenge to the European Court of Human Rights
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| Year of publication | 2018 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | NYU Jean Monnet Working Paper Series |
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| Web | https://jeanmonnetprogram.org/wp-content/uploads/JMWP-03-Jan-Petrov.pdf |
| Keywords | European Court of Human Rights; populism; criticism of the European Court of Human Rights; judicial independence; judicial accountability; judicial self-government; crisis of liberal democracy; global constitutionalism; European constitutionalism |
| Description | The past decade gave rise to serious criticism of the ECtHR. This article analyzes the position of the ECtHR with regard to a more recent phenomenon challenging the ECtHR – an unprecedented wave of populism in Europe. The article argues that the rise of populism not only intensifies the pressure on the ECtHR; it poses a serious and distinctive challenge to the ECtHR since supranational judicial review is at odds with the populist ideology. |
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