Table of Contents

Preface: A Tale from the Future and a Salutary Story for Our Times
1: Consociations and Consociationalism
2: Bosnia as a Consociation
3: Human Rights Law and Courts in Consociations
4: The Belgian Consociational Cases in the European Court of Human Rights
5: Departing from Precedent
6: The Bosnian Constitutional Court and Consociation
7: The Grand Chamber Judgment
8: Sejdic and Finci & The Future of Consociations
Conclusions & Policy Implications

About the Author

Christopher McCrudden FBA is Professor of Human Rights and Equality Law at Queen's University, Belfast; Leverhulme Major Research Fellow (2011-14), and William W Cook Global Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. A Fellow of the British Academy, he is the author of numerous titles, including Buying Social Justice (OUP, 2007).
Brendan O'Leary is the Lauder Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, Professor of Political Science, Queen's University Belfast, and former Senior Advisor on Power-sharing in the Standby Team of the Mediation Support Unit of the United Nations.

Reviews

Written by distinguished specialists in human rights law and political science, the book is a must-read for anyone interested in the effects that regional human rights courts may produce on easily-breakable power-sharing bargains.
*Michal Balcerzak, Human Rights Quarterly*

This is a well written, comprehensive and in-depth study of the use of consociationalism and power-sharing in areas with long-term conflicts. A main strength of the book is that the theme is analysed from different perspectives: theoretical, legal, comparative and contextual.
*Inger-Johanne Sand, Nordic Journal of Human Rights*