Has the Brighton Declaration produced a New Deal on European human rights in terms of engendering a new and more central role to national legal and political institutions? A greater subsidiarity? Against the backdrop of a systematic exploration of the case law of the European Court of Human...

While many East European states, which are now members of the EU, are restoring the repressive practices of communist times, EU institutions have focused their attention only on Poland's democratic deficit. Indeed, in July 2017, the European Commission initiated proceedings against Poland for...

Despite the important role that institutions play in explaining economic growth, there exist few objective quantitative measures of institutional quality. We propose a new quantitative index that allows comparing the strength of property rights across the member states of the Council of Europe....

This paper analyzes the significance of texts for the legal construction of human rights. First, it argues that a written and legally enforceable Bill of Rights is no precondition to the legal existence of human rights. But, secondly, such texts, be they binding or non-binding, of a...

In the past few years, different laws have been discussed and adopted in Europe aiming to strengthen corporate accountability in the areas of human rights and environmental protection. This article provides an overview of these developments, and identifies trends and debates related to mandatory...