The Legal Status of Decisions by Human Rigths Treaty Bodies in National Law

Authors
Publication date 2011
Series Amsterdam Law School Legal Studies Research Paper, 2011-02
Number of pages 81
Publisher Amsterdam: Amsterdam Center for International Law, University of Amsterdam
Organisations
  • Faculty of Law (FdR) - Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL)
Abstract The success of UN human rights treaty monitoring mechanisms (such as the Human Rights Committee) depends largely on the influence that the findings of these bodies exert on national legal orders. This paper examines the effects that national courts can and do give to such findings. It examines, on the basis of available data on the practice of national courts, whether and how decisions of treaty bodies acquire legal effect at the national level and more in particular in the practice of national courts.
Document type Working paper
Language English
Published at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1817532
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