Human Rights Law and Evidence-Based Policy : The Impact of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (Hardcover)

Part I: FRA and its Policy Environment; Chapter 1: The Genesis of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency: Why a think tank rather than a monitoring body ? Olivier De Schutter; Chapter 2: A New Agency, and so what? Giving flesh and blood to FRA’s Founding Regulation ? Morten Kjaerum; Chapter 3: Hand in Hand for a Better Protection of Human Rights in Europe: The relationship between the Council of Europe and FRA ? Tatiana Termacic; Chapter 4: FRA’s Policy Impact and Future Posture: Lessons from the perspective of the European Commission ? Salla Saastamoinen; Chapter 5: Human Rights Communicators: FRA’s evolving voice on research, rights and policy ? Rosemary Byrne; Chapter 6: Exploring the Political Role of FRA: Mandate, resources and opportunities ? Jan Wouters and Michal Ovadek; Part II: Researching Applied Rights; Chapter 7: FRA as a Meeting Place of Law and Social Sciences ? Han Entzinger and Gerard Quinn; Chapter 8: A Reflection on the Quality of FRA’s Research and Methodology ? Angela Me; Chapter 9: Equality and Inclusion: Designing research to reconcile rights, ideals and policy practices at FRA ? Han Entzinger; Chapter 10: FRA’s Efforts to Combat Hatred, Xenophobia and Racism ? Francoise Tulkens; Chapter 11: Promoting Equality: FRA’s work on Roma ? Jose Manuel Fresno and Johanna Niemi; Chapter 12: Violence against Women: Policy impact and FRA’s evidence-based research ? Roman Wieruszewski and Katarzyna S?kowska-Kozłowska; Chapter 13: Borders and Migration Control: FRA’s research at protection black spots - Jens Vedsted-Hansen; Chapter 14: Embedded EU Research on Refugees and Asylum: FRA’s work on asylum and irregular migration ? Rosemary Byrne; Part III: Overcoming Constraints; Chapter 15: FRA’s Response to the Current Human Rights Challenges ? Manfred Nowak and Anna Muller-Funk; Chapter 16: Upholding the Rule of Law in the EU: What role for FRA? ? Laurent Pech and Joelle Grogan; Chapter 17: Evidence-based Advising for Fundamental Rights: Concluding reflections ?Rosemary Byrne and Han Entzinger;