It’s a Council of Europe institution (note, not EU), so really there’s no common legal philosophy, just the relevant treaties and conventions. The European Cou

It’s a Council of Europe institution (note, not EU), so really there’s no common legal philosophy, just the relevant treaties and conventions. The European Court of Human Rights’ whole raison d’être is the European Convention on Human Rights, so it interprets laws through the lens of whether they conform to that, and does have its own case law, albeit a short history of it.