[Linganth] Jessica Greenberg this Friday

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Some of you might be interested in joining the APLA reading group this
Friday.

The APLA virtual reading group is delighted to feature Jessica Greenberg's
new book, Justice in the Balance. We are meeting December 5th from noon to
1 pm to discuss the book with her by Zoom.

She has asked us to read ch.4 and offers us the introduction as well.
Please read as much as you can, but do feel free to join us even if you
haven't managed to read everything.

The reading can be found here:
Ch. 4 -
 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lM2O0hJTjsHy2GgWzJuLuxPuLkwrFfzx/view?usp=drive_link
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lM2O0hJTjsHy2GgWzJuLuxPuLkwrFfzx/view?usp=drive_link>

Introduction:
 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fKmn82y_KDyhrwplWSILM24eQUvwoaya/view?usp=drive_link
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fKmn82y_KDyhrwplWSILM24eQUvwoaya/view?usp=drive_link>

The meeting will be 12-1 pm  east coast time Friday, December 5th and can
be reached by clicking on this Zoom link:

https://iu.zoom.us/j/94049124398

Looking forward to seeing you all virtually,

Ilana
Press blurb: Established as a post-World War II response to conflict and
fascism, the European Court of Human Rights is routinely characterized as
the most successful human rights institution in the world. Based in
Strasbourg, France, its jurisdiction extends to over 700 million people on
European soil across the 46 Council of Europe member countries. The Court
is the crown jewel of the Council, an international organization dedicated
to human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. And yet, for years,
European institutions have been haunted by the specter of failure. In the
shadow of rising populism, inequality, and war, faith in democracy and the
rule of law has been shaken to its core. Drawing on extensive fieldwork
conducted over eight years with human rights advocates, lawyers, and judges
at the European Court of Human Rights, this book asks: What kind of justice
is possible through law?

Drawing on participant observation, in-depth interviews, and archival
research, Jessica Greenberg tracks two paradoxical experiences of the
European human rights system and the Court: on the one hand, the Court as a
bureaucratic "machine;" on the other, the Court as the "conscience of
Europe." She argues that human rights frameworks fuel imaginative
approaches to social change, and compel legal actors to creatively navigate
institutions through advocacy, persuasion, and innovative interpretation of
what the law is and what it should be.
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