A Critical Appraisal of the Venice Principles on the Protection and Promotion of the Ombudsman

An Equivalent to the Paris Principles

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ID16765116
AuthorsLuka Glušac (0000-0002-7597-6839, Research Fellow, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, Serbia. [email protected], corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume21
Issue1
Pages22-53
Publication date2021-02-05
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHuman Rights Law Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1461-7781 • E-ISSN: 1744-1021
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/hrlr/ngaa040
OpenAlexW3118275429
LanguageEN
Citations received5

This article offers a detailed critical appraisal of the Venice Principles on the Protection and Promotion of the Ombudsman, adopted in 2019 by the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe. It praises them for being the most comprehensive set of constitutional and legal principles relating to ombudsman to date, drafted to be applicable to different legal and political systems. However, the article finds that such adaptability also resulted in some trade-offs and came at the expense of conceptual clarity of some of the principles. Despite that, the Venice Principles present a more complete document than the Paris Principles on National Human Rights Institutions, with better internal logic and consistency when it comes to ombudsman’s issues. The article concludes that ombudsman institutions fully in line with the Venice Principles would, ipso facto, reach a normative threshold for the compliance with the Paris Principles

CLARITY · Commission · Compliance (psychology) · Consistency (knowledge bases) · Critical appraisal · Human rights · Normative · Political science · Politics · Promotion (chess) · Sociology · Computer Science · European and International Law Studies · European Criminal Justice and Data Protection · Law · Medicine · Ombudsman and Human Rights

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