The Inter-American Human Rights System: The Law and Politics of Institutional Change

ISBN-13: 9780367236861 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 162 str.

Par Engstrom; Courtney Hillebrecht

Opis

This comprehensive volume explores the institutional changes and transformations that the Inter-American Human Rights System has undergone since its creation. It was originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of Human Rights.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Institutional change and the Inter-American Human Rights System Part 1: Institutional Change in Historical Perspective 2. Silence, hindrances and omissions: the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Brazilian military dictatorship 3. Assessing the record of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Latin America’s rural conflict zones (1979–2016) Part 2: Normative and Legal Change 4. The international authority of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: a critique of the conventionality control doctrine 5. Two steps forward, one step back: reflections on the jurisprudential turn of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on domestic reparation programmes 6. Preventive reparations at a crossroads: the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and Colombia’s search for peace Part 3: Challenges and Change 7. Institutional complexity in the Inter-American Human Rights System: an investigation of the prohibition of torture 8. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights’ new Strategic Plan: an opportunity for true strengthening