The quest for efficiency of the European Court of Human Rights - An inquiry into repetitive cases and the docket crisis

Efficiency is widely believed to be a panacea for reducing the number of pending cases and the backlog at the ECtHR, but what increasing the ECtHR's efficiency means, is surprisingly unclear. The lack of a clear concept of efficiency exposes the ECtHR to political pressure to review individual applications according to certain indicators in order to be considered efficient. The book explores the notion of efficiency beneath the response to repetitive cases and the docket crisis in addition to shedding light on the statistics, budget and procedures. It draws up a roadmap for conceptualising the ECtHR's efficiency and makes the case for clearly distinguishing between efficiency, performance and perceptions thereof.

Product details

• Authors: Edith Wagner
• Publisher: Nomos
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2025
• EAN: 9783756013036
• ISBN: 978-3-7560-1303-6
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Successful Dispute Resolution
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Privatrecht, Verfahrensrecht, Europarat, EU, Europäische Union, Human Rights, NG-Rabatt, Europäische Menschenrechtskonvention, EMRK, Europäischer Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte, EGMR, ECHR, European Convention on Human Rights, Verfahrensdauer, Verfahrenseffizienz, Individualbeschwerden, Vertragsstaaten, fair trial