A Comparative Perspective on Strategic Litigants Before the ECtHR. Human Rights Cases in Times of Culture Wars

This study was designed to conduct a historical and conceptual analysis of strategic litigation, aiming to understand its role in the human rights backlash. It established the main framework for how the ideological aspect of this backlash could be legally conceptualised by examining the development of the concept of culture wars from the United States to Europe. Within this scope, it examines conservative-strategic litigation networks, focusing on their reflections in the US and Europe, and establishes a typology specific to the European Court of Human Rights. This typology is structured around how seven fundamental strategies are weaponised for human rights backlash within the context of culture wars.