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Introduction : purpose and structure, categorisation of states and hypotheses / Patricia Popelier, Sarah Lambrecht, and Koen Lemmens -- Criticising the European Court of Human Rights or misunderstanding the dynamics of human rights protection? / Koen Lemmens -- European Union : the EU's attitude toward the ECHR / Clara Raucchegger and Sarah Lambrecht -- Austria : endorsing the convention system, endorsing the constitution / Anna Gamper -- Belgium : faithful, obedient, and just a little irritated / Patricia Popelier -- Czech Republic : Strasbourg case law undisputed / L'ubom�ir Majer�c�ik -- Germany : the long way of integrating the Strasbourg perspective into the protection of fundamental rights / Katharina Pabel -- Italy : between constitutional openess and resistance / Giuseppe Martinico -- Poland : the taming of the shrew / Krystyna Kowalik-Ba�nczyk -- Sweden : European Court of Human Rights endorsement with some reservations / Henrik Wenander -- France : "je t'aime, moi non plus" / Katarzyna Blay-Grabarczyk and Christophe Maubernard -- Hungary : 'gains and losses' : changing the relationship with the European Court of Human Rights / Eszter Polg�ari -- The Netherlands : political dynamics, institutional robustness / Janneke Gerards -- Norway : new constitutionalism, new counter-dynamics? / Michael Reiertsen -- Switzerland : the substitute constitution in times of popular dissent / Tilmann Altwicker -- Turkey : the European Convention on Human Rights as a tool for modernisation / Olgun Akbulut -- The United Kingdom : from Strasbourg surrogacy towards a British Bill of Rights? / Roger Masterman -- Russia : in quest for a European identity / Aaron Matta and Armen Mazmanyan -- Assessing the existence of criticism of the European Court of Human Rights / Sarah Lambrecht.

For some time now, the European Court of Human Rights is under substantial pressure. From a case overload crisis it stumbled into a legitimacy crisis with regard to certain countries. This should be taken seriously, since scholars warn that institutions with eroding legitimacy risk demise or reform. The goal of this volume is to explore how widespread this critical attitude of the European Court of Human Rights really is. It also assesses to what extent such criticism is being translated in strategies at the political level or at the judicial level and brings about concrete changes in the dynamics between national and European fundamental rights protection. The book is topical and innovative, as these questions have so far remained largely unexplored, especially cross-nationally.Far from focusing exclusively on those voices that are currently raised so loud, conclusions are based on comparative in-depth reports, covering fifteen Contracting Parties and the EU.With contributions of Olgun Akbulut, Tilmann Altwicker, Katarzyna Blay-Grabarczyk, Anna Gamper, Janneke Gerards, Krystyna Kowalik-Banczyk, Sarah Lambrecht, Koen Lemmens, Lubomir Majerc�ik, Giuseppe Martinico, Roger Masterman, Aaron Matta, Christophe Maubernard, Armen Mazmanyan, Katharina Pabel, Eszter Polg�ari, Patricia Popelier, Clara Rauchegger, Michael Reiertsen and Henrik Wenander.