Contents: Foreword H.E. Ivo Opstelten 1. Introduction: The Need for Both International and National Protection of Human Rights - The European Challenge Anthony Bradley 2. Criticism and Case-overload: Comments on the Future of the European Court of Human Rights Luzius Wildhaber 3. The European Court of Human Rights and its Ever-growing Caseload: Preserving the Mission of the Court While Ensuring the Viability of the Individual Petition System Paul Mahoney 4. Is the European Court of Human Rights on a Slippery Slope? Marc Bossuyt 5. Why Much of the Criticism of the European Court of Human Rights is Unfounded Egbert Myjer 6. Challenges Facing the European Court of Human Rights: Fragmentation of the International Order, Division in Europe and the Right to Individual Petition Lucian Bojin 7. Britain Must Defy the European Court of Human Rights on Prisoner Voting as Strasbourg is Exceeding its Authority David Davis 8. More Human Rights than Court: Why the Legitimacy of the European Court of Human Rights is in Need of Repair and How it Can be Done Tom Zwart 9. The Vital Relationship between the European Court of Human Rights and National Courts Wilhelmina Thomassen 10. The Need for Dialogue between National Courts and the European Court of Human Rights Lord Kerr 11. Interaction between the European Court of Human Rights and Member States: European Consensus, Advisory Opinions and the Question of Legitimacy Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou 12. Amicus Curiae as a Means to Reinforce the Legitimacy of the European Court of Human Rights Nicole Burli 13. How to Improve the Results of a Reluctant Player: The Case of Russia and the European Convention on Human Rights Anton Burkov 14. Solutions for the European Court of Human Rights: The Amicus Curiae Project Janneke Gerards and Ashley Terlouw 15. An All-European Conversation: Promoting a Common Understanding of European Human Rights Andras Sajo 16. Conclusion: The European Convention on Human Rights as a Common European Endeavour Julie Fraser Index

'This collection of essays on the ECHR is very welcome and the editors did a great job in gathering and assembling all of them, avoiding overlapping contributions but guaranteeing the presence of different points of view. . . -- I do recommend reading this work.' - Giuseppe Martinico, Common Market Law Review

Edited by Spyridon Flogaitis, Director, European Public Law Organisation, Tom Zwart, Director, The Netherlands School of Human Rights Research and Julie Fraser, Assistant Professor, Netherlands Institute of Human Rights, Utrecht University, the Netherlands