As the title of this book indicates, this is a technical book on the specific role of third-party interveners in proceedings before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The fact that the book is available only in hardcover edition, contributes to the rather elevated price-level of the book. The publication deals with interventions of non-governmental organisations on the one hand and with member state interventions, and amicus curiae interventions on the other. The book's main intended audience is a readership interested in technical reflections on complex proceedings before the ECtHR, since general knowledge of the proceedings before the ECtHR as well as of the European Convention on Human Rights are presumed by the author. Thus, the book is not advisable for someone who is not familiar with basic knowledge on the proceedings before the ECtHR, as the author does not focus on the elaboration of this basic information. The experienced reader profits from an in-depth examination of complex issues.

The book, which is not part of a series, reflects on the special topic of proceedings before the ECtHR and the interventions of third parties, by providing extensive insight and analyses cases with third-party interventions between the years 1979 and 2016. More specifically, the potential influence of those third-party interventions on the reasoning and decision-making of the ECtHR is analysed. Moreover, the book includes a table of cases, which provides a complete overview of all cases before the ECtHR that entailed thirdparty interventions in the aforementioned period. This table of cases provides the reader with information on the specific type of third-party intervention. In addition, the cases are arranged in alphabetical order within each year of the period between 1979 and 2016. Thus, the reader is offered the possibility to gain a general overview on all third-party interventions on the one hand, and the opportunity of specific information on single cases with third-party interventions on the other. In addition, the table of cases is interlinked logically with the book‘s table of contents, as well as the index, so that the reader can navigate easily through complex issues dealt with in the book, even if he/she is only interested in certain sections of it.