ERC Starting Grant · 2024
Beyond compliance: Rethinking the Effectiveness of Regional Human Rights Regimes
The European, African and inter-American human rights regimes seem not to be effective vis-à-vis non-democratic states. Besides undermining the international rule-based order, this situation has dire implications for human rights victims. Conventional theories, based on the experience of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), equate the effectiveness of regional courts with compliance. This perspective is inadequate to explain the status quo, where illiberal states may execute individual rulings while violating the underpinning norms. Scholarship on the Global South suggests that the experiences of the inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) and the African Court of Human and…
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