Table of Contents
Acknowledgments v
List of Contributors ix
1 Law and Rights' Claiming on behalf of Minorities in the Multi-level European System Dia Anagnostou 1
Part I Law, Rights and the Politics of Minorities in National Context
2 Linguistic Minorities in Western Europe: Expansion of Rights Without (Much) Litigation? Bruno de Witte 27
3 Legal Mobilisation at the Subnational Level: The Case of Language Rights in the Spanish Autonomous Community of Navarre Xabier Arzoz 53
4 Rights on the Left? Social Movements, Law and Lawyers after 1968 in France Liora Israël 79
Part II European Courts as Arenas for Legal Mobilisation
5 A Tool-box for Legal and Political Mobilisation in European Equality Law Mark Dawson Elise Muir Monica Claes 105
6 European Courts and the Rights of Migrants and Asylum Seekers in Greece Evangelia Psychogiopoulou 129
Part III The Role of NGOs and Transnational Human Rights Networks
7 From Belfast to Diyarbakir and Grozny via Strasbourg: Transnational Legal Mobilisation Against State Violations in Contexts of Armed Conflict Dia Anagnostou 157
8 Activists and Lawyers in the ECtHR: The Struggle for Gay Rights Loveday Hodson 181
9 Law and Rights as Opportunity and Promise for Minorities in Europe? Concluding Observations and Research Agendas Dia Anagnostou 205
Bibliography 219
Index 237