(S)electing Judges for Strasbourg
(S)electing Judges for Strasbourg
A (Dis)appointing Process?
This chapter introduces the selection mechanism for judges to the European Court of Human Rights, focusing on the way the Council of Europe approaches the question and on how national states deal with it. Section 2 sketches the Council of Europe’s legal framework pertaining to the eligibility of judges. In Section 3, the position and the practice of the individual bodies participating in the selection at the Council of Europe’s level is outlined. Next, Section 4 focuses on the national dimension by taking the examples of Belgium, France, and the UK, since all three states recently had to organize selection procedures. Finally, Section 5 concludes by analysing the value conflicts emerging in the selections to the ECtHR.
Keywords: European Court of Human Rights, European Convention, Council of Europe, judicial elections, Parliamentary Assembly, Committee of Ministers, Advisory Panel, national selections
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