Rights and Courts in Pursuit of Social Change: Legal Mobilisation in the Multi-Level European System (Oņati International Series in Law and Society) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1849463905 ISBN 13: 9781849463904

Publisher: Hart Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

Over the past few decades, European countries have witnessed a proliferation of legal norms concerning marginalised individuals and minorities who increasingly invoke them in front of courts to assert their rights and claim protection. The present volume explores the relationship between law, rights and social mobilisation in Europe. It specifically enquires into the extent and ways in which legal processes and entitlements are mobilised by less privileged social actors to advance their rights claims and pursue social change. Most distinctly, it explores such processes in the context of the multi-level European system, characterised by the existence of multiple legal and judicial arenas at the national, subnational and supranational/transnational level. In such a complex system of law and governance in Europe, concepts like legal opportunity structures, as well as the factors shaping them need to be reconceptualised. How does the multi-level European context distinctly shape the nature and salience of rights, as well as their mobilisation by individuals and minority actors?

About this title

From the Author:

Dia Anagnostou is Senior Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) and Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics at Panteion University of Social Sciences in Athens.

Review:

...anyone interested in (human) rights, courts and politics will probably find stimulating thoughts to take away from this very fascinating book. (Mathias Möschel Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, 21.3)

Anagnostou's enthralling style and her ability to produce precise definitions make it easy to pay attention. (Marion Guerrero European Journal of Legal Studies)

The strength of this book is an appreciation of the multiplicity of approaches and strategies among parties. (David Schultz The Law and Politics Book Review)

...this volume will be valuable to anyone seeking to relate the generalities of the rule of law to a more detailed appreciation of the manner in which the rule of law shapes political potentialities. (Christopher May Political Studies Review)

About this edition

• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1849463905
• ISBN 13: 9781849463904
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 250
• Editor: Anagnostou Dia