Over the past thirty years, the European Court of Human Rights has developed an ambitious, American-style body of law that has made it, in many ways, the Supreme Court of Europe. Goldhaber introduces readers to the judicial arm of the Council of Europe–a group distinct from the European Union, and much larger– whose mission is centered on interpreting the European Convention on Human Rights. The Council routinely confronts nations over their most culturally-sensitive, hot-button issues: France on the issue of Muslim immigration; Ireland on abortion; Austria on Nazism; and Britain on gay rights and corporal punishment. And what is most extraordinary is that nations commonly comply.