Toward a Jurisprudence of Free Expression in Russia: The European Court of Human Rights, Sub-National Courts, and Intersystemic Adjudication

Authors

Robert B. Ahdieh, Texas A&M University School of LawFollow
H. Forrest Flemming

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-2013

Journal Title

UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs

ISSN

1089-2605

Abstract

Protection of free expression in Russia is headed the wrong direction, but one institution may still be able to slow its backward slide: the Russian judiciary. In particular, sub-national courts-those operating at the ground level-have the potential to shape a renewed jurisprudence of free expression in Russia. To encourage as much, the European Court ofHuman Rights (ECHR) should engage the Russian courts in a pattern of "intersystemic adjudication, "pressing them to embrace ideas about the role of courts, the law, human rights, and free expression more in line with international norms. Hopefully, this can reverse Russia's current path toward the suppression of free expression.

First Page

31

Last Page

60

Num Pages

30

Volume Number

18

Issue Number

1

Publisher

UCLA School of Law

Recommended Citation

Robert B. Ahdieh & H. Forrest Flemming, Toward a Jurisprudence of Free Expression in Russia: The European Court of Human Rights, Sub-National Courts, and Intersystemic Adjudication, 18 UCLA J. Int'l L. & Foreign Aff. 31 (2013).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/facscholar/1191

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