Event Host: Mershon Center for International Security Studies
International courts and other liberal international institutions are increasingly facing backlash from consolidated liberal democracies. Do liberal international institutions respond in order to keep their traditional allies on board?
In this talk, Erik Voeten will examine this question in the context of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). We evaluate two mechanisms. First, governments that are critical of the Court may nominate more deferential judges. Second, judges may behave in a more deferential way towards consolidated democracies in order to prevent future backlash.
Erik Voeten is the Peter F. Krogh Professor of Geopolitics and Justice in World Affairs at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and Government Department. He has completed research on the United Nations, the European Union, the European Court of Human Rights and broader issues of international law and cooperation.
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