Includes bibliographical references (pages 543-553) and index.

Introduction / Amrei M�uller and Hege Elisabeth Kjos -- Judicial dialogue on international human rights law in Poland and Eastern Europe / Izabela Skomerska-Muchowska -- Horizontal judicial dialogue on human rights : the practice of constitutional courts in South America / Michael Freitas Mohallem -- The Supreme Court of Canada's transnational judicial communication on human rights (1982-2014) : an empirical assessment / Gianluca Gentili and Elaine Mak -- Ideological barriers to judicial dialogue : a study of the laws establishing Shariah courts in Malaysia and Nigeria / Azizat O. Amoloye-Adebayo -- Complementary protection and domestic courts : the extent, method, purpose and effects of judicial dialogue / Naomi Hart -- The construction of same-sex families in Western Europe through legislative and judicial dialogues : the role of national legislatures and supranational courts / Daniele Gallo and Matteo M. Winkler -- Engaging in judicial dialogue : some reflections from the United Kingdom Supreme Court / The Right Honourable Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill -- Engaging in judicial dialogue : the practice of the German Federal Constitutional Court / Andreas Paulus -- Judicial dialogue : the experience of Italy / Raffaele Sabato -- The ECtHR's engagement with German and Russian courts' decisions : encouraging effective cooperation to secure ECHR rights / Amrei M�uller -- Encouraging judicial dialogue : the contribution of human rights NGO's briefs to the European Court of Human Rights / Laura Van Den Eynde -- Dialogues between the Strasbourg Court and national courts / Luis L�opez Guerra -- The ECtHR's use of decisions of domestic courts from states not involved in the case and other Council of Europe bodies / Erik M�se -- The ECtHR' use of decisions of international courts and quasi-judicial bodies / Angelika Nu�Cberger -- From judicial dialogue to cosmopolitan norms : enhancing democracy in Globalised states / Cara Marsan-Ravent�os -- Dialogue or interaction? A non-cosmopolitan reading of transjudicial communication / Luca Pasquet -- Conclusion / Amrei M�uller.

"This book offers an...analysis of the extent, method, purpose and effects of domestic and international courts' judicial dialogue on human rights. The analysis covers national courts' judicial dialogue from different regions of the world, including Eastern Europe, Latin America, Canada, Nigeria and Malaysia. The text is complemented by studies on specific subject matters such as LGTBI people's and asylum seekers' rights that further contribute to a better understanding of factors that stimulate or hold back judicial dialogue, and by first hand insights of domestic and European Court of Human Rights judges into their courts' involvement in judicial dialogue."--