Cambridge University Press European Human Rights Justice and Privatisation: The Growing Influence of Foreign Private Funds

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 system. These groups have created their own litigation teams, have increasingly funded NGOs litigating the European Courts, and have contributed to the content and supervision of the European judgements, which all have direct effects on the growth and procedure of human rights. European Human Rights Justice and Privatisation analyses the impacts of this private influence and the resultant effects on international relations between states, including the orientation of European jurisprudence towards Eastern countries and the promotion of private and neo-liberal interests. This book looks at the direct and indirect threat of this private influence on the independency of the European justice and on the protection of human rights in Europe. Book Description Offers a new understanding of the relationships between litigation strategies, growing private funding and European human rights justice. About the Author 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.