Research Handbook on Compliance in International Human Rights Law

Edited by Rainer Grote, Senior Research Fellow, Mariela Morales Antoniazzi, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany and Davide Paris, Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law, Department of Law, University of Foggia, Italy

Contents:

Preface xiii
List of abbreviations xiv
1 Compliance in international human rights law: issues, concept, methodology 1
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PART I EUROPE
2 Securing the survival of the system: the legal and institutional
architecture to supervise compliance with the ECtHR’s judgments 12
Raffaela Kunz
3 The ECHR as a constitutional rights catalogue: compliance in Austria 42
Christina Binder and Philipp Janig
4 Compliance in France: a ‘dialogue without words’ 58
Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen
5 Under the watchful eyes of the Federal Constitutional Court:
compliance in Germany 75
Nicola Wenzel
6 The chances of observing human rights in an illiberal state: diagnosis of
Hungary 95
Eszter Polgári and Boldizsár Nagy
7 Changing me softly? Actors, tools and techniques of international
human rights compliance in Italy 121
Giorgio Repetto
8 Assessing Russia’s responses to judgments of the European Court of
Human Rights: from (non)-compliance to defiance 136
Ausra Padskocimaite
9 The ‘indirect constitutionalization’ of international human rights law in Spain 183
Encarna Carmona Cuenca and Sara Turturro Pérez de los Cobos
10 Compliance in the UK in the ‘age of subsidiarity’ 202
Alice Donald

PART II LATIN AMERICA
11 Compliance as transformation: the Inter-American System of Human
Rights and its impact(s) 225
Rene Urueña
12 Argentina: strong linkage between IHRL and domestic law 248
Laura Clérico and Celeste Novelli
13 A multi-level process: compliance with international human rights law
in Brazil 272
Flávia Piovesan and Julia Cortez da Cunha Cruz
14 Chile: compliance after ‘kind’ reminders 289
Judith Schönsteiner and Marcela Zúñiga
15 Compliance with international human rights obligations in Colombia:
assessing the normative evolution and practical challenges 313
Juana Acosta-López and Giovanny Vega-Barbosa
16 Reparation without access to justice: the incomplete compliance with
the judgments of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Mexico 329
Guillermo E. Estrada Adán and Patricia Cruz Marín
17 Venezuela: from the structural non-compliance with judgments of
the IACtHR to the denunciation of the ACHR and the OAS Charter
(a pending matter for a future democratic state) 346
Carlos Ayala Corao

PART III AFRICA
18 Forging a credible African system of human rights protection by
overcoming state resistance and institutional weakness: compliance at
a crossroads 362
Frans Viljoen
19 Compliance with international human rights decisions in Cameroon:
mechanisms in place but a lack of transparency 391
Debra Long
20 A pick and pay approach: Burkina Faso’s compliance with international
human rights law 407
Kounkinè Augustin Somé

PART IV THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS SYSTEM – THE CASE OF THE ICCPR
21 Compliance monitoring under the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights 425
Anja Seibert-Fohr and Christine Weniger

PART V CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES
22 A dialogue with the deaf? The political branches as compliance partners 449
Rainer Grote
23 Judicial compliance in the regional human rights systems 465
Davide Paris
24 NGOs: A critical link to understanding and strengthening compliance of
international decisions 484
Mariela Morales Antoniazzi and Viviana Krsticevic
25 Conclusion: moving beyond compliance without neglecting compliance
in international human rights law 509
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Index