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.
News
- New guest researcher: Reto Walther Feb. 28, 2019 12:00 PM
- Call for papers: The Legitimate Role for Investment Law and Arbitration in Protecting Human Rights Jan. 17, 2019 9:56 AM
- New members of the PluriCourts team Sep. 19, 2018 3:41 PM
Publications
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Anonymity for Victims in Terrorism Cases at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon: Security and Human Rights in International Criminal Justice
Article by Juan Pablo Pérez León Acevedo, published in Liora Lazarus and Ben Goodman (eds.) Security and Human Rights, Hart publishing.
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Human Rights at the Reparations System of the International Criminal Court
Book chapter by Juan-Pablo Pérez-León-Acevedo, published in Martin Scheinin (ed.) Human Rights Norms in ‘Other’ International Courts, Cambridge University Press.
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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.
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)
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