Can the ECtHR Serve as an Alternative Venue for Inter-State Racial Discrimination Claims? Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia and the Strategic Value of Multi-Forum Litigation – EJIL: Talk!

On 9 July 2025, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR, the Court) issued its long-awaited merits judgment in Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia, a nearly 500-page ruling of unprecedented scale in the Court’s history, which also drew an…