EU Accession to the ECHR

Vasiliki Kosta is Assistant Professor of European Law at Leiden University.Nikos Skoutaris is Lecturer of EU Law at the University of East Anglia and Visiting Senior Fellow at the European Institute, London School of Economics.Vassilis Tzevelekos is a Lecturer in Public International Law at the University of Hull.

• Chapter 1: IntroductionVicky Kosta, Nikos Skoutaris, Vassilis TzevelekosPart I: Institutional issuesChapter 2: Election of EU Judge onto the Strasbourg CourtAndrew DrzemczewskiChapter 3: Too Many Voices? The Prior Involvement of the CJEUAida Torres PérezChapter 4: The Right to Extra-Judicial Redress in EU Law after the EU's Accession to the ECHRs: Legal Framework, Challenges and the Question of the Prior Involvement of the CJEUNikos VogiatzisPart II: Issues of Attribution and Responsibility Chapter 5: The Accession Agreement as an Opportunity: Partition of Responsibility between the EU and its Member StatesJudge Giorgio Gaja, ICJChapter 6: A European Law of International Responsibility? The Articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations and the European UnionJean D'Aspremont,Chapter 7: United We Stand. The EU and its Member States in the Strasbourg CourtAndrés Delgado CasteleiroChapter 8: Consequences Under the Law of International Responsibility of the Accession of the European Union to the European Convention on Human Rights for Common Foreign and Security Policy Operations pursuant to UN Security Council ResolutionsArman Sarvarian Part III: Coordinating Rivalry: Creating Order from Pluralism? Chapter 9: The Fate of the Bosphorus Doctrine Following AccessionOlivier De SchutterChapter 10: Human Rights and the Autonomy of EU Law: Pluralism or Integration?Piet EeckhoutChapter 11: The EU, the ECHR, and Logics of "Constitutional Pluralism": Democracy and Distrust in the Wider EuropeRobert Harmsen Chapter 12: Taming the Fragmentation Monster through Human Rights? International Constitutionalism, "Pluralism Lite", and the Common Territory of the two European Legal OrdersLucas LixinskiPart IV: The Role of the National Legal Orders Chapter 13: Caught in the Middle or Leading the Way? National Courts in the New European Fundamental Rights LandscapeMonica Claes & Sejla ImamovicChapter 14: Two Worlds (Still) Apart? ECHR and EU Law Before National CourtsGiuseppe MartinicoChapter 15: Kissing Awake a Sleeping Beauty? The Charter in EU and National Policy Practice John Morijn Part V: Integration in Human Rights: Towards a Common European Espace Juridique? Chapter 16: European Consensus and the EU Accession to the ECHRKanstantsin Dzehtsiarou & Pavel RepyeuskiChapter 17: Conceptions of Equality under EU Law and the ECHR: Towards a Taxonomy of European Equality LawPanos Kapotas Chapter 18: Missing the Forest (of Rechtsstaat) by Focusing on the Tree (of Legal Technicalities): Wrongdoers and Innocent Bystanders before the European Court of JusticeBernard M. Hoekman & Petros C. Mavroidis Chapter 19: EU Accession in the ECHR: Identifying the New Legal Avenues for Access to Justice in the Area of Public ProcurementAris Georgopoulos Chapter 20: The EU's Accession to the ECHR and Due Process Rights in EU Competition Law Matters: Nothing New Under the Sun?Albert Sanchez GraellsPart VI: Instead of a conclusion: Views from the Courts A view from the ECHRChristos RozakisA view from the CJEUChristiaan TimmermansConcluding RemarksBruno De Witte

This book is a timely, well-researched and well-argued contribution to this body of literature.The book provides the reader with an excellent understanding of the problems and possibilities of the EU's accession to the ECHR. It is a timely contribution to an ongoing debate that equips the reader with the necessary knowledge and insights to form an opinion both on the procedural and institutional aspects of the EU's accession as well as on the substantive issue of where a permissible level of diversity of human rights protection in Europe may lie and how this level may legally be achieved and maintained.