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

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 Sekowska-Kozlowska;Chapter 13: Borders and migration control: FRA’s research at protection black spots - Jens Vedsted-Hansen;Chapter 14: Embedded EU research on refugee protection: 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: Concluding reflections on human rights law and evidence-based policy? Rosemary Byrne and Han Entzinger;