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The European Court of Human Rights and Its Contribution to Judicial Fragmentation in International Human Rights Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 December 2019

Elena Abrusci*
Affiliation:
Human Rights Centre and School of Law-University of Essex (elena.abrusci@essex.ac.uk).

Extract

Following the International Law Commission Report on Fragmentation in International Law (IL), scholars have started to question whether such fragmentation could also have affected its subbranches, and, especially, international human rights law (IHRL). Due to the proliferation of both IHRL norms and institutions, especially at the regional level, this appeared to be a real possibility.

Type
Regional Human Rights Bodies as Instruments of International Law
Copyright
Copyright © 2019 by The American Society of International Law

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References

1 See, among others, Towards Convergence in International Human Rights Law: Approaches of Regional and International Systems (Carla M. Buckley, Alice Donald & Philip Leach eds., 2016).

2 Handölsdalen v. Sweden, App. No. 39013/04, Admissibility (Eur. Ct. H.R. 2010).

3 Hingitaq 53 v. Denmark, App. No. 18584/04, Admissibility (Eur. Ct. H.R. 2006).

4 For instance, Mayagna (Sumo) Awas Tingni Community v. Nicaragua, Merits, Reparations and Costs, Judgment, Inter-Am. Ct. H.R. (ser C.) No. 79 (Aug. 31, 2001) or Yakye Axa Indigenous Community v. Paraguay, Merits, Reparations and Costs, Judgment, Inter-Am. Ct. H.R. (ser C.) No. 125 (June 17, 2005).

5 Gender identity, and equality and non-discrimination with regard to same-sex couples. State obligations in relation to change of name, gender identity, and rights deriving from a relationship between same-sex. Advisory Opinion OC-24/17, Inter-Am. Ct. H.R. (ser. A) No. 24 (Nov. 24, 2017).

6 Schalk and Kopf v. Austria, 2010-IV Eur. Ct. H.R. 409; Chapin and Charpentier v. France, 2016-II Eur. Ct. H.R. 215.

7 Id. at 57–60.

8 Advisory Opinion OC-24/17, supra note 5, at 220.

9 Id. at 219.

10 All the following data are based on a study conducted by the author. Further detailed available upon request.