For some time now, the European Court of Human Rights is under substantial pressure. From a case overload crisis it stumbled into a legitimacy crisis with regard to certain countries. This should be taken seriously, since scholars warn that institutions with eroding legitimacy risk demise or reform. The goal of this volume is to explore how widespread this critical attitude of the European Court of Human Rights really is. It also assesses to what extent such criticism is being translated in strategies at the political level or at the judicial level and brings about concrete changes in the dynamics between national and European fundamental rights protection. The book is topical and innovative, as these questions have so far remained largely unexplored, especially cross-nationally.Far from focusing exclusively on those voices that are currently raised so loud, conclusions are based on comparative in-depth reports, covering fifteen Contracting Parties and the EU.

Dieses Open-Access-Buch beleuchtet das Serienphanomen "Game of Thrones" aus unterschiedlichen wissenschaftlichen Perspektiven: Die rechtswissenschaftliche trifft auf die sprach-, musik-, literatur- und sozialwissenschaftliche, ferner die (kunst-)historische, psychologische und theologische Perspektive. Die Beitrage zeigen auf, dass die Serie reiche Anknupfungspunkte fur die wissenschaftliche Forschung unterschiedlichster Fachrichtungen bietet, die auch dazu anregen, sprichwoertlich "beyond the wall" zu denken. Das Buch spricht dabei sowohl ein interdisziplinares wissenschaftliches Publikum als auch sonstige Fans der Serie an.