Objective JURISTRAS studies the relationship between courts and politics, between judicial review of human rights at the supranational level and domestic politics and policies in Europe. Specifically it comparatively explores processes human rights litigation and state implementation of European Court of Human Rights judgments, as well as the effects of the latter in national legislative reform and policy making in a number of EU member states and Associate Candidate States. In response to Court judgments national authorities may seek to evade or contain compliance, but they may also undertake broader reforms to pre-empt recurring infringements of human rights provisions.JURISTRAS shall examine under what conditions Strasbourg Court judgments that find state authorities to have breached Convention provisions promote broader domestic reform or policy-change and expand justice for individuals and communities. We shall explore the hypothesis that patterns of state compliance and national implementation of Court judgments centrally depend on and are mediated by domestic processes of societal mobilization, public support and elite learning. We specifically focus on the Court's growing jurisprudence pertaining to the civil rights of individuals and communities, and their participation in the public sphere in a democratic setting.Such case law has primarily grown out of specific categories of cases brought to the European Court of Human Rights, in which individuals claim a violation of their right to privacy and family life, religious freedom and conscience, freedom of expression, assembly and association, and discriminatory treatment. In the course of our research, we shall identify best practices concerning the establishment or improvement of national and EU-level mechanisms for addressing human rights claims and resolving disputes between individual rights and State interests. Fields of science social sciencespolitical sciencesgovernment systemsdemocracysocial scienceslawhuman rights Programme(s) FP6-CITIZENS - Citizens and Governance in a knowledge-based society: Thematic Priority 7 under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research Programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) CITIZENS-2004-6.2.2 - Human rights and conflicts CITIZENS - Citizens and governance in a knowledge-based society Call for proposal FP6-2004-CITIZENS-5 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator HELLENIC FOUNDATION FOR EUROPEAN AND FOREIGN POLICY Address 49 vasilissis sofias avenue Athens Greece See on map Links Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (8) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all FOUNDATION CENTRE FOR LIBERAL STRATEGIES Bulgaria EU contribution € 0,00 Address 135a rakovski str. Sofia See on map Links Website Opens in new window LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE OF HUMAN RIGHTS Austria EU contribution € 0,00 Address Hessgasse 1 Vienna See on map Links Website Opens in new window ROMANIAN ACADEMIC SOCIETY Romania EU contribution € 0,00 Address Sipotul fantanilor nr 4 Bucharest See on map Links Website Opens in new window UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI SIENA Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Via banchi di sotto 55 Siena See on map Links Website Opens in new window UNIVERSITAET BIELEFELD Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Universitaetsstrasse 25 Bielefeld See on map Links Website Opens in new window UNIVERSITY OF KENT United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address The registry, university of kent Canterbury, kent See on map Links Website Opens in new window Universite Libre de Bruxelles Belgium EU contribution € 0,00 Address Avenue franklin roosevelt 50 Bruxelles See on map Links Website Opens in new window YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY Türkiye EU contribution € 0,00 Address Barbaros bulvari besiktas Istanbul See on map Links Website Opens in new window
