Law and Politics in Europe

Sovereign states, no matter how strenuously they cling to the Westphalian paradigm, assert their right to regulate persons, property or events in their domestic jurisdictional boundaries, and attempt to enforce these regulations, encounter transboundary interactions that introduce foreign law, judgments, and status into their domestic legal orders. One aspect of the interaction between legal systems is the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgements and the role of the European Court of Human Rights in the process.