Contents: 1. Introduction: The European court of human rights - the past in the present / Helmut Philipp Aust
Part I: Current challenges of the court: 2. From boom to backlash? The European court of human rights and the transformation of Europe / Mikael Rask Madsen
3. Principled resistance to the European court of human rights and its case law: A comparative assessment / Marten Breuer
4. Can Strasbourg be replicated at a global level? A view from Geneva / Yuval Shany
Part II: Historical perspectives on current challenges: The drafting history in context: 5. The European convention on human rights and postwar history: Why origins matter / Marco Duranti
6. For the sake of unity: The drafting history of the European convention on human rights and its current relevance / Esra Demir-Gürsel
7. Asylum and immigration under the European convention on human rights - an exclusive universality? / Prisca Feihle
Part III: Histories as cases and in the cases: 8. History as an afterthought: The (re)discovery of article / in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights / Başak Çalı and Kristina Hatas
9. Rethinking effectiveness: Authoritarianism, state violence and the limits of the European court of human rights / Dilek Kurban
10. 'Never again' as a cornerstone of the Strasbourg system: The traces of the Holocaust in the jurisprudence of the European court of human rights / Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias
11. Historical truth before the European court of human rights / Björnstjern Baade
12. The limits of the European court of human rights vis-à-vis contestation and authoritarianism: Concluding observations / Esra Demir-Gürsel Index.