Eirik Bjorge is the Shaw Foundation Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College, University of Oxford. He is the author of The Evolutionary Interpretation of Treaties (Oxford University Press, 2014).
The immense strength of Bjorges study is that it both demonstrates that the tensions between the European Court and the domestic authorities are commonplace across the Council of Europe and identifies the way to its effective resolution: that Strasbourg can only succeed in achieving a subsidiary role if domestic courts perform the critical duty of securing human rights protection at home. Richard Clayton QC, Law Quarterly Review The tensions that arise inevitably when national courts are required to apply international standards, especially in sensitive areas such as human rights, has been the subject of much discussion over the years. That debate is sought to be furthered by this book which focuses on how the domestic courts [in member-states of the Council of Europe] define their role in relation to the European Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg, specific attention being paid to the judiciaries of France, Germany and the United Kingdom. The Commonwealth Lawyer 24:3