It probably speaks well of the overall state of human rights in Europe that the European Court of Human Rights devotes a lot of its time to compelling moral issues like George Soros’s insider trading conviction. (Fine, there’s some torture too.) But how good is this: Hedge funds have been known to use hardball tactics to make money. Now they have come up with a new one: suing Greece in a human rights court to make good on its bond payments. The novel approach would have the funds arguing in the European Court of Human Rights that Greece had violated bondholder rights, though that could be a multiyear project with no ... (full story)