External engagement strategies of Europe's highest courts

Maartje De Visser

Chapter 11 in Research Handbook on Judging and the Judiciary, 2025, pp 209-228 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter explores how selected highest courts in Europe seek to achieve a wide dissemination of their work, including the perceived propriety of such attempts. This notably extends beyond the communication of reasoning through judicial opinions to other, newer methods for conversing with the press and the public. The chapter discusses why and how the traditional paradigm of communicating through judgments has been recalibrated with the help of case studies of the German and Italian constitutional courts, as well as the European Court of Human Rights. The principal claim put forward is that it is both prudent as well as proper for judges and courts to practice modern forms of external engagement, not least because doing so can foster explanatory accountability, sociological legitimacy, and transparency, notwithstanding possible constraints in the form of safeguarding judicial independence and impartiality.

Keywords: External judicial engagement; Press releases; Social media; Sociological legitimacy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781788978736
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