European Human Rights Justice and Privatisation

Gaëtan Cliquennois works as senior fellow in the field of human rights. He is currently a permanent Research Fellow at the CNRS/DCS, Law and Social Change, University of Nantes, and has been visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics and Political Science.

This book offers a very new understanding of litigation before the European Courts and of relationships between litigation strategies, private funding and European case law with a view to fostering a societal debate about the growing influence of the private sector on the European human rights justice system.

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; Bibliography; Index.