Council of Europe and the ECtHR

The New Kid on the Block: EU's position on transitional justice - EU and democratization of post-communist countries - Democratic backsliding among EU member states.

Reading list:

 ·   Gonzalez-Ocantos, Ezequiel. Communicative Entrepreneurs: The Case of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ Dialogue with National Judges. International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 62, Issue 4 (2018), pp 737-750.

 ·       Šipulová, Katarína and Hubert Smekal.  Between Human Rights and Transitional Justice. The Dilemma of Constitutional Courts in Post-Communsit Central Europe. Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 73, Issue 1 (2021), pp. 101-130.

·        The EU’s Policy Framework on support to transitional justice

·        Unger, Thomas. ‘The European Union and transitional justice’, Centre for the law of EU external relations Working Paper 1/2010. Available at < http://www.asser.nl/upload/documents/2172010_25518CLEER%20WP%202010-1%20-%20UNGER.pdf>

·      Welsh, Helga. Beyond the National: Pathways of Diffusion. In: Nedelsky, Nadya, and Lavinia Stan. Post-Communist Transitional Justice : Lessons From Twenty-Five Years of Experience. Cambridge University Press, 2015, pp. 167-188.