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

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.

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.