The Relationship Between Strasbourg and Constitutional Courts. Qualitative and Quantitative Dimensions

This paragraph is devoted to describing the state of affairs of the relationship between the Strasbourg Court and national constitutional courts. The First Section analyse the evolving role of the European Court of Human Rights in the European legal space, in particular by briefly illustrating the ongoing constitutionalising process of its jurisprudence and the solutions that have been adopted to face the various crises that have affected it. The Second Section provides an overview of the different postures of constitutional courts vis-à-vis the Strasbourg Court. In the third section, with the help of tables and charts, the relationship is illustrated in its quantitative dimension.