Introduction -- The increasing influence of private foundations in the realm of justice -- The Creeping Private Influence on the Inputs of the ECtHR and the CJEU -- The Influence of Private Foundations on the Outputs of the ECtHR and the CJEU -- The Growing Influence Exerted by the Private Sector on the Reform and Structure of the ECtHR and the CJEU -- Effects of the Growing Influence of Private Interests on the Orientation of the European Case Law -- The Effects of Private Litigation on Domestic Policies and International Relations : the Rise of Tensions between the EU, the US and Eastern Countries -- The Relationships between Litigation Funded by Private Foundations and Economic and Political Interests Pursued by them -- Conclusion
Summary:
"With the decline of public funding and new strategies pursued by interest groups, foreign private foundations and donors have become growing contributors to the European human rights justice. The creation of their own litigation teams, their increasing funding of NGOs and applications before the European Courts, their contribution to the content and supervision of the judgments delivered by these Courts, have some direct effects on human rights. In this perspective, we also analyse the impacts of this private influence on the European jurisprudence, its potential privatisation and on international relations between states. We question thus the direct and non-direct threat of this private influence on the independency of the European justice and on the protection of human rights in Europe. The private influence on the inputs, the outputs and the structures of the European Courts could orient the European jurisprudence towards certain countries (considered to be enemies of wealthy financiers) and the promotion of private interests (such as free market and capitalism: promotion of competition and free market, of a liberal and international society) pursued by private foundations"-- Provided by publisher.
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