OUVRAGE : Y. Haeck, O. Ruiz-Chiriboga, C. Burbano Herrera (eds.),The Inter-American Court of Human Rights: Theory and Practice, Present and Future

Catherine MAIA

Along with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights serves as the main watchdog for the promotion and protection of fundamental rights in the Americas. Drawing on the case law of the Court, this volume analyses crucial developments over the years on both procedural and substantive issues before the Inter-American Court. The book discusses access to legal aid, third party interventions, positive obligations and provisional measures, the evaluation of evidence and the use of external referencing by the Court, the protection of vulnerable groups, including indigenous peoples, migrants, women and children. It also explores other contemporary issues such as coerced statements, medical negligence, the use of force, amnesties, forced disappearances, the right to water, judicial protection in times of emergency, the relation of the Inter-American Court with national courts and with other international jurisdictions like the European Court of Human Rights and the International Criminal Court, and with national courts, reparations and revisions of cases by the Inter-American Court, and present-day challenges to the Inter-American system of human rights. Due to its multifaceted and comprehensive character, this scholarly volume is an essential reference work for both legal scholars and practitioners working with regional human rights systems in general and with the Inter-American human rights system in particular.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part I. THE REASONING OF THE COURT

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Interpretive Method of External Referencing: Regional Consensus v. Universality
An Overview of the Inter-American Court’s Evaluation of Evidence
Revision Procedures: Revisiting the Case of Mapiripán Massacre v. Colombia

Part II. PROCEDURAL ASPECTS

Who Pays the Bill? Possibilities and Limitations of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights Legal Assistance Fund
The Amicus Curiae in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (1982–2013)

Part III. CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS

Defining the Scope of the Provisions Against the Use of Illegitimate Coerced Statements in the Inter-American System
Medical Negligence and International Human Rights Adjudication. Procedural Obligation in Medical Negligence Cases under the American Convention on Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights
Use of Force. Requirements, Limitations and Pending Challenges from the Perspective of the Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Judicial Protection in States of Emergency. An Analysis of the Amplitude of Judicial Protection of Fundamental Rights During the Application of Derogations

Part IV. ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND CULTURAL RIGHTS

Yakye Axa v. Paraguay: Upholding and Framing the Human Right to Water
Social, Economic, and Cultural Rights. The Inter-American Court at a Crossroads
Impact of the Reparations Ordered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and Contributions to the Justiciable Nature of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Part V. REPARATIONS AND PROVISIONAL MEASURES

Sacred Fire as Healing. Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Indigenous Peoples in the Inter-American Court's Judgments
Punitive Damages and the Principle of Full Reparation in the Case Law of the Inter-American Court of Human Right
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights and Its Role in Preventing Violations of Human Rights through Provisional Measures

Part VI. ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES AND AMNESTY LAWS

The Contribution of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and Other International Human Rights Bodies to the Struggle Against Enforced Disappearance
Building Truth and Moving Justice. The Inter-American Court and the Forcible Disappearance of Children
The Move Towards a Victim-Centred Concept of Criminal Law and the "Criminalization" of Inter-American Human Rights Law. A Case of Human Rights Law Devouring Itself?
Amnesty Laws in the Case-Law of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Rights Cast into Oblivion? Amnesties in the Case-Law of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Part VII . GROUPS IN VULNERABILITY

Jurisprudence in a Political Vortex. The Right of Indigenous Peoples to Give or Withhold Consent to Investment and Development Projects – The Implementation of Saramaka v. Suriname
Juvenile Criminal Justice before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Aims and Limitations of the Imprisonment of Children
The Case of the Kichwa Peoples of the Sarayaku v. Ecuador. Constructing a Right to Consultation and to Cultural Identity?
The Treatment of Irregular Migrants in the Inter-American Human Rights and European Union Case-Law. Two Parallel Lines may even Meet
Sexual Orientation and Parenthood. A Comparative Analysis of the Case Law of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights
What a ‘Private Life’ Means for Women

Part VIII . THE COURT AND NATIONAL JUDGES AND TRIBUNALS

Chronicle of a Fashionable Theory in Latin America. Decoding the Doctrinal Discourse on Conventionality Control
The Radilla-Pacheco v. Mexico Case. A Paradigmatical Shift Towards Conventionality Control in Mexico
The Latin American Judicial Dialogue. A Two-Way Street Towards Effective Protection

Part IX. INTERACTION BETWEEN THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL COURTS

The Inter-American Court and the International Criminal Court. Transjudicial Communication, Boundaries and Opportunities
Inter-American Court of Human Rights and European Court of Human Rights. From Observation to Interaction on Human Rights
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ Positive Obligations Doctrine. Between Unidirectional Influence and Judicial Dialogue

Part X. REFORMING THE INTER-AMERICAN SYSTEM

Strengthening or Straining the Inter-American System on Human Rights

About the Editors
About the Contributors

Yves HAECK, Oswaldo RUIZ-CHIRIBOGA, Clara BURBANO HERRERA (eds.), The Inter-American Court of Human Rights: Theory and Practice, Present and Future, Cambridge, Intersentia, 2015 (832 pp.)

CONTRIBUTORS

Paola Andrea Acosta Alvarado, Thomas Antkowiak, Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen, Jean-Paul S. Calderón, Agostina N. Cichero, Gabriella Citroni, Diana Contreras-Garduño, Valeska David, Jeffrey Davis, Marijke De Pauw, Cristiana María Domínguez, Gina Donoso, Rosmerlin Estupiñan Silva, Elena Falletti, Julie Fraser, Patricio Galella, Tainá Garcia Maia, Sebastián A. Green Martínez, Juana María Ibáñez Rivas, Krešimir Kamber, Nikolas Kyriakou, Claudia Martin, Scott Mckenzie, Frédéric Megret, Martín Nicolás Montoya Céspedes, Salvatore Fabio Nicolosi, Ciara O’Connell, Álvaro Paúl, Micaela Pérez Ferrero, Francisco J. Rivera Juaristi, Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón, Geneviève Säuberli, Eric Tardif, Aziz Tuffi Saliba, Manuel E. Ventura Robles, Kristin Wu, Monica Yriart, Leo Zwaak,

EDITORS

Clara Burbano-Herrera, Ph.D., Ghent University (Belgium); LL.M. in Fundamental Rights, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain); Postgraduate Degree In Constitutional Law, Universidad Nacional de Colombia – Bogotá (Colombia); Master in Law (Universitad de Los Andes (Colombia); Fulbright Postdoctoral Research Fellow, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University (Usa); Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders, Human Rights Centre, Ghent University (Belgium); Co-Lecturer Human Rights in Developing Countries, Ghent University (Belgium). Her research interests concern the Inter-American, the European and the African System of Human Rights, and especially the instrument of the interim measures. She is the author of Provisional Measures in the Case Law of The Inter-American Court Of Human Rights (Intersentia Publishers 2010) and Medidas Provisionales en Situaciones de Vida o Muerte (Editorial Porrúa 2013). [Clara.Burbanoherrera@Ugent.Be, Cburbano@Hsph.Harvard.Edu]

Yves Haeck, Ph.D., Ghent University (Belgium); Master and Bachelor In Law, Ghent University (Belgium); Professor of Constitutional and International Human Rights Law, Human Rights Centre And Department of Constitutional Law, Ghent University (Belgium); Visiting Professor, Centre For Human Rights, University of Pretoria (South Africa); Former Associate Professor, Netherlands Institute of Human Rights, Utrecht University (The Netherlands). He has co-authored Handboek EVRM. Deel 1. Algemene Beginselen (Manual on the European Convention on Human Rights) (Intersentia Publishers, 2004-5) and Procederen Voor Het Europees Hof Voor De Rechten Van De Mens (The Procedure Before The European Court Of Human Rights) (Intersentia Publishers, 2011); Editor-in-Chief of the Inter-American and European Human Rights Journal; Consultant To EU Fundamental Rights Agency; Blog on Top International Human Rights Courses, Traineeships & Jobs In Europe [Www.Internationalhumanrightscourses.Blogspot.Com]. [Yves.Haeck@Ugent.Be]

Oswaldo Ruiz-Chiriboga, Ph.D. Researcher, Human Rights Centre, Ghent University (Belgium); LL.M. in Human Rights in International and European Law, Utrecht University (The Netherlands); LL.M. in International Criminal Law, University Of Granada (Spain); Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Argumentation, University of Alicante (Spain); Postgraduate Diploma in Human Rights, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (Ecuador); Postgraduate Diploma in Human The Inter-American Court of Human Rights and Democracy, Pontificia Universidad Católica Del Ecuador (Ecuador); Former Senior Staff Attorney of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Costa Rica); Former Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Justice and International Law (Cejil); Blog on the Inter-American Court [Corteidhblog.Blogspot.Be]. [Oswaldo.Ruizchiriboga@Ugent.Be]The Inter_American Court Of Human Rights.