What does the treatment of expertise by the European Court of Human Rights tell us about the difficulty to review public action?
L'Expertise dans la jurisprudence de la Cour européenne des Droits de l'Homme, révélateur d'un difficile contrôle juridictionnel de l'action publique ?
Résumé
The European law of Human Rights tackles expertise from a material point of view (objective knowledge helping the judge to apprehend an allegedly complexification of litigious cases) as well as from a functional point of view (meaning - among others - that the judge is enabled to safeguard and promote human rights). Thus, the review of empirical data is protected because it protects these rights and not because it is an assessment tool for public action.