Overview
- Offers important new tools in analysing the effectiveness and impact of the IAHRS, and international human rights institutions more broadly
- Provides new empirical insights into the conditions under which the IAHRS is able to advance the realisation of a range of human rights
- Presents interdisciplinary research on the IAHRS through the participation of scholars in law, political science, international relations, and socio-legal studies, from all over the world
Part of the book series: Studies of the Americas (STAM)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
“This book is an insightful and informative contribution to the discourse on social change and international law. Editor and author Par Engstrom shows the transformative power of international human rights law in action, while highlighting some of its limitations. Academics, practitioners, and policy makers who study and engage with the Inter-American system will find Impact Beyond Compliance an essential reference, while its approach and analysis will be useful for all who work in international human rights law.” (Viviana Krsticevic, Executive Director of the Center for Justice and International Law, USA)
“This book offers an extraordinary contribution for understanding the impact of the IAHRS in the region. Adopting a refined contemporary critical analysis, it focuses on the challenges, perspectives, dilemmas, limits and potentialities of the IAHRS in fostering social change, reconceptualizing how the system matters, the role of different actors and institutions, as well as the impact of regional litigation through transnational activism in the domestic order. It’s an inspiring tool for rethinking the IAHRS and its role in strengthening human rights, democracy and rule of law in the region.” (Flávia Piovesan, Commissioner, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (2018-2021), and Professor of Constitutional Law and Human Rights, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paolo, Brazil)
“Today more than ever we need literature able to show what difference human rights law and institutions have made to those they intend to protect, and how their work has helped to establish stronger state institutions able to uphold the rule of law and human rights. This book gives voice not only to academics but also to practitioners who look at multiple dimensions of the work of the system, Commission and Court, across many countries in the region, and even in relation to the United Nations and other regional human rights systems. The result is a set of important reflections that will surely help to shape further thinking on impact and effectiveness of international human rights institutions.” (Clara Sandoval, Director of the Essex Transitional Justice Network (ETJN), School of Law and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, UK)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Inter-American Human Rights System
Book Subtitle: Impact Beyond Compliance
Editors: Par Engstrom
Series Title: Studies of the Americas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89459-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89458-4Published: 16 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07775-4Published: 26 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-89459-1Published: 26 June 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 340
Number of Illustrations: 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Latin American Politics, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Human Rights, Comparative Politics, Democracy