European Court of Justice (CJEU) in the light of the findings as presented in two books: The legal culture of the European Court of Human Rights (2007) and, with Groussot and Petursson, The European human rights culture (2013).1 It analyses legal cultures using a combination of legal documents, case law analysis, and first-hand interviews with ECtHR and CJEUjudges and, at theCJEU, advocates general. The analysis of theEC tHRandCJEUis then evaluated from a human rights perspective: European benches are staffed with one judge per member state, drawn from old monarchies, proud republics, or post-Communist states, with all very diverse legal systems and legal cultures. Each judge or advocate general brings to these supranational settings a multiplicity of individual experience, whether legal, cultural, political, or vocational. Controversial issues of European law and human rights are solved on these benches. Metaphorically speaking, these European benches are kaleidoscopes of individual experience in constantly changing patterns. his essayconsiders the legal cultures of the two European courts, namely the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the T part vi • european legal integration 1 Nina-Louisa Arold, The legal culture of the European Court of Human Rights (Leiden: Nijhoff, 2007); Nina-Louisa Arold Lorenz, Xavier Groussot & Gunnar Thor Petursson, The European human rights culture: A paradox of human rights protection in Europe? (Leiden: Nijhoff, 2013) 298 A kaleidoscope of people: The legal cultures of the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice 18. Nina-Louisa Arold Lorenz
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