Most research into the legitimacy of international courts shows very little interest in the judges of international courts and their selection and behaviour. Above all, mainstream research has been focused on the normative challenges to liberal democracy implied by international courts in terms...

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...