The European Court of Human Rights between Law and Politics

Edited by Jonas Christoffersen, Executive Director, Danish Institute for Human Rights, and Mikael Rask Madsen, Professor of European Law and Integration and Director, Centre for Studies in Legal Culture, University of Copenhagen

Dr. jur. Jonas Christoffersen is Executive Director of the Danish Institute for Human Rights (Denmark's National Human Rights Institution). He was previously Assistant Professor in Human Rights Law at the University of Copenhagen, a temporary judge at the High Court of Eastern Denmark, and a clerk at the Supreme Court of Denmark. He is also an advocate admitted to the Danish Bar and the High Courts of Denmark.

Dr. Mikael Rask Madsen is Professor of European Law and Integration and Director of the Centre for Studies in Legal Culture at the University of Copenhagen. He was formerly at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He has been a visitor at numerous universities, including University of Strasbourg, Oxford University, and University of California at Berkeley.

Contributors: 

Ed Bates, Senior Lecturer, University of Southampton, School of Law.
Rachel A. Cichowski, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Law, Societies and Justice Program, University of Washington.
Robert Harmsen, Professor of Political Science at the University of Luxembourg, formerly Senior Lecturer in European Studies at Queen's University Belfast
Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez, Professor of Public Law at Université de Paris - Est Créteil, as well as Marie Curie Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence.
Anthony Lester, practising barrister QC and member of Blackstone Chambers, as well as a member of the House of Lords (Lord Lester of Herne Hill), Co-Founder and Hon President of Interights and a member of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights.
Laurent Scheeck, Counsellor, International Relations Unit of the Chamber of Deputies, Luxembourg, formlerly Associate Professor at the Institut d'Etudes Européennes - Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Erik Voeten, Peter F. Krogh Associate Professor of Geopolitics and Global Justice, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and Government Department, Georgetown University.
Luzius Wildhaber, Professor (em.) at the University of Basel, Visiting Professor at Yale Law School and former President of the European Court of Human Rights (1998-2007).