‘Heads and Tails’: Admissibility and Remedies at the European Court of Human Rights

1 Connecting Scholarship on Admissibility, Remedies, and Merits in Strasbourg So extensive has scholarship on the European Convention on Human Rights (echr or Convention) and the European Court of Human Rights (the Court) become that within this academic field, entire sub-specialisations have developed.The substantive law is and remains the main subject of scholarship on the Court.This then concerns the meaning of specific Convention rights, the obligations following from them for both states and private actors, and the justifications of restrictions on those rights.But in addition to this, the last decade or two also witnessed a fast-evolving scholarship on topics such as the Court's 'proceduralisation' ,1 subsidiarity and the margin of appreciation or on state compliance.Some scholars have focussed entirely on the entry point of applications to Strasbourg and thus on issues of admissibility.2Others have analysed the execution of the Court's judgments, focusing on the individual and general measures indicated by the Court's judgments or on the supervision of their execution by states.3 1 See, for example, OM Arnardóttir, 'The 'Procedural Turn' Under the European Convention on