European Human Rights Justice and Privatisation by Cliquennois, Gaetan

ISBN: 9781108497053

Cambridge University Press, 01 January 2020

Hardback, 250 pages

"With the decline of public funding and new strategies pursued by interest groups, foreign private foundations and donors have become growing contributors to the European human rights justice. The creation of their own litigation teams, their increasing funding of NGOs and applications before the European Courts, their contribution to the content and supervision of the judgments delivered by these Courts, have some direct effects on human rights. In this perspective, we also analyse the impacts of this private influence on the European jurisprudence, its potential privatisation and on international relations between states. We question thus the direct and non-direct threat of this private influence on the independency of the European justice and on the protection of human rights in Europe. The private influence on the inputs, the outputs and the structures of the European Courts could orient the European jurisprudence towards certain countries (considered to be enemies of wealthy financiers) and the promotion of private interests (such as free market and capitalism: promotion of competition and free market, of a liberal and international society) pursued by private foundations"--