Charles Evans Hughes said more than a hundred years ago that"[wie are under a
Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is."'Today, nevertheless, in Latin …

The Inter-American human rights system (the I AHRS), in place for fifty years, is composed of
the Inter-American Commission on Human R quasi-judicial body that issues …

Abstract What might the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) gain from a 'judicial
dialogue'with the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the form of borrowing the …

In this article, I discuss the ways in which the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
(IACtHR) may address cases adopting a novel approach to legal adjudication—one that …

El sistema interamericano de protección de derechos humanos opera hoy en un ambiente
social, político y legal muy diferente al que existía cuando, hace unas dos décadas y algo …

This paper examines the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights'(AICHR)
role in upholding human rights by using the perspective of the human rights regime theory …

International courts and tribunals are often asked to review decisions originally made by
domestic decision-makers. This can often be a source of tension, as the international courts …

This chapter introduces the central themes of the book and argues that the Inter-American
Human Rights System (IAHRS) is activated by political actors and institutions in ways that …

This article is a contribution to an area of research that remains neglected in both the
literature on reparations under international law and on the jurisprudence of the Inter …

This article examines the performance of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
in the 1970s with regard to the complaints of violations committed by the Brazilian military …