title: Russia and the European Court of Human Rights: The Strasbourg Effect
abstract: Russia and the European Court of Human Rights: The Strasbourg Effect, edited by Mälksoo and Benedek, focuses on a pressing issue in the field of human rights law: the impact of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights in decaying democratic contexts and authoritarian settings and the reception of the Convention and its standards by domestic judges in such environments. The book is timely due to two recent developments that set Russia aside from the other forty-six member states of the 
journal: International Journal of Constitutional Law