PluriCourts studies the legitimacy of multi-level human rights international Courts and Tribunals (ICs) at the regional and international levels. States have started to question the legitimacy of these ICs, for example, the professionalism of the members of those treaty bodies or how they stifle the scope of domestic decision making.
Affiliated Researchers
Professors
Postdoctoral fellows
Projects
- The Intersection of the Law of Treaties and Human Rights Law: State Obligations Upon Signing a Treaty Granting Jurisdiction to an International Tribunal Adjudicating Human Rights Violations
- The Politics of Compliance with International Human Rights Courts (completed)
- MultiRights - The Legitimacy of Multi-Level Human Rights Judiciary (completed)
- Judicial Dialogues on the Rule of Law: Interaction between National Courts and the European Court of Human Rights (completed)
Publications
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Aspects of Human Rights Interpretation by the UN Treaty Bodies
Book chapter by Birgit Peters (formerly Schlütter).
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'Forensic Fetishism' and Human Rights after violent conflict: uncovering Somaliland's troubled past?
An article by postdoctoral fellow Shakira Bedoya Sanchez and Dr. Markus Virgil Hoehne will be published shortly by Berghahn Books as part of a volume entitled 'Universalism vs. Relativism: Human Rights in Anthropological Perspective'.
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The Presidential Pardon of Fujimori: Political Struggles in Peru and the Subsidiary Role of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Article in International Journal of Transitional Justice by Leiry Cornejo Chavez, Juan-Pablo Pérez-León-Acevedo and Jemima García-Godos.
Blog posts
- Instituting a Global Sanctions Regime June 18, 2019 10:53 AM
- Researchers meet the European Court of Human Rights Dec. 17, 2018 2:27 PM
- Oslo Recommendations for Enhancing the Legitimacy of International Courts: international judges take a stand on current challenges facing the international justice system Aug. 1, 2018 12:17 PM