Reevaluating Regional Human Rights Litigation in the Twenty-First Century
The Case of the Inter-American Court
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9543417 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James L Cavallaro (corresponding author), Stephanie Erin Brewer (0009-0007-4903-864X) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 102 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 768-827 |
| Publication date | 2008-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of International Law (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9300 • E-ISSN: 2161-7953 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/20456681 |
| OpenAlex | W2013399972 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 41 |
| References cited | 5 |
Over the past few decades, regional human rights tribunals have grown in both number and activity. The European Court of Human Rights (European Court or ECHR) now receives tens of thousands of petitions and issues over fifteen hundred judgments on the merits each year. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights recently tripled the number of cases that it resolves annually. At the time of this writing, in mid-2008, Africa’s own regional human rights court, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, prepares to begin hearing its first contentious cases. Currently, sixty-eight states are subject to the decisions of the two established regional courts (forty-seven in Europe and twenty-one in the Americas), up from less than half that number twenty years ago. In the nascent African system, twenty-four African Union member states have ratified the Protocol establishing the African Court, with an additional twenty-five signatory states
Context (archaeology · Geography · Human rights · International human rights law · Jurisdiction · Jurisprudence · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · International Law and Aviation · International Law and Human Rights · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law
A participação das vítimas no sistema interamericano
Compliance in Time
Mapping the Cross-Border Influence of Regional and International Reproductive Rights Cases
Behind the State
Balancing Specificity of Reparation Measures and States’ Discretion to Enhance Implementation
Addressing the Implementation Crisis
Overcrowded Classroom Management Strategies used by Teachers and their Challenges at Primary School Level in Pakistan
Non-Western Peacekeeping as a Factor of a Multipolar World
Law and Politics in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Law and Politics in the Inter-American System
The Evolving International Judiciary
Commemoration as Symbolic Reparation
Locking In Human Rights in Africa
The role of the European court of human rights in changing gender norms in Turkey
Human Rights between Jurisprudence and Social Science
International institutional design and human rights
Domestic Politics and the Effectiveness of Regional Human Rights Courts
The Reputational Impact of Investor-State Disputes
Green-Lighting Accountability
Regional Courts, Domestic Politics, and the Struggle for Human Rights
Closing the gap
Media Attention and Compliance With the European Court of Human Rights
Forced Displacement in Turkey
An Alternative Approach to the Conventionality Control Doctrine
Direitos Indígena na América do Sul
Una paradoja interamericana? Chile, un Estado que cumple las sentencias del Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, pero que impulsa su reforma
The Contribution of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to the Protection of Irregular Immigrants’ Rights
Regulation of Prison Conditions
Oversight Hearings, Stakeholder Engagement, and Compliance in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
International Criminal Law by Other Means
Assessing the Effectiveness of International Courts
Islands of Effective International Adjudication
From Litigation to Rights
Nature or Nurture? Judicial Lawmaking in the European Court of Justice and the Andean Tribunal of Justice
Directing Compliance? Remedial Approach and Compliance with European Court of Human Rights Judgments
Rational Remedies
Judicial Power in Domestic and International Politics
The Dilemma of Dissent
Impactos Da Justiça Transicional Sul-Americana No Sistema Interamericano De Direitos Humanos
Public Reactions to Noncompliance with Judicial Orders
How naming and shaming affects human rights perceptions in the shamed country
Import, Export, and Regional Consent in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Redesigning the European Court of Human Rights
Is the European Convention on Human Rights Sufficiently Equipped to Cope with Gross and Systematic Violations
State Compliance with the Recommendations of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, 1994-2004
Human Rights in a Globalizing World
| Citations per year | 2.41 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Highly cited | No |