A critical appraisal of the European Court of Human Rights Since the turn of the millennium, the European Court of Human Rights has been the transnational setting for a European-wide 'rights revolution'. One of the most remarkable characteristics of the European Convention of Human Rights and its highly acclaimed judicial tribunal in Strasbourg is the extensive obligations of the contracting states to give observable effect to its judgments. Focusing on various areas of law and policy, this book explores the domestic execution of the European Court of Human Rights' judgments and dissects the variable patterns of implementation within and across states. How do national authorities implement the adverse ECtHR's rulings, and what factors facilitate, or conversely restrict implementation, as well as their potential to promote broader policy change? A number of contributions also relate how marginalised individuals, civil society and minority actors strategically take recourse in the Strasbourg Court to challenge state laws, policies and practices. These bottom-up dynamics influencing the domestic implementation of human rights have been little explored in the scholarly literature until now. By adopting an inter-disciplinary perspective, this volume contributes to the flourishing scholarship on human rights, courts and legal processes, and their consequences for national politics. Dia Anagnostou is Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics, in Panteion University of Social Sciences, and Senior Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation of European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) in Athens. She is editor and co-author of Rights and Courts in Pursuit of Social Change: Legal Mobilisation in the Multi-Level European System, Oxford: Hart Publishers (2014).