Este reporte fue elaborado por
Oswaldo Ruiz-Chiriboga
El Centro de Derechos Humanos de la
Universidad de Gante (Bélgica) acaba de emitir el día de hoy una convocatoria
para propuestas de artículos (call for abstracts) sobre la Corte Interamericana. Los autores de las propuestas seleccionadas
serán posteriormente invitados a escribir un artículo que será publicado en un
libro conmemorativo de los 35 años de funcionamiento de la Corte Interamericana
de Derechos Humanos. El 80% del libro se
espera que sea en idioma inglés y sólo el 20% en idioma español, así que se
recomienda a los interesados que sometan sus propuestas en inglés. Las propuestas deben ser cortas (máximo 1.000
palabras). El plazo vence el 15 de
noviembre de 2012, así que los interesados cuentan con suficiente tiempo para
presentar sus propuestas de investigación (máximo 2 propuestas por persona). A continuación se transcribe integralmente la
mencionada convocatoria:
The Inter-American Court of Human
Rights (the Court), together with the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights
(the Commission), makes up the human rights protection system of the
Organization of American States (OAS), which serves to uphold and promote basic
rights and freedoms in the Americas. Along with the European and African
systems, the Inter-American System of Human Rights is one of the three
principal regional human rights protection mechanisms.
The Inter-American Court was created
by the American Convention on Human Rights in 1969, but became operational in 1979,
after the OAS’s General Assembly elected its first judges. In 2014 the Court
will have 35 years of existence.
Dozens of advisory opinions and
judicial decisions have been adopted during this time, covering a growing
number of issues, from traditional themes as extrajudicial executions, forced
disappearances, torture, unlawful searches, to new generation of cases, such as
indigenous and ethnic communities’ rights, social rights, various guarantees in
the prosecution, etc.
The Human Rights Centre of Ghent
University is seeking original proposals for research papers that will result
in a peer-reviewed book on the Inter-American Court and its 35 years of
existence, which will be presented and the topics of which will be the subject
of discussion on an international conference on the same topic, to be organised
by the Human Rights Centre. With this book and
the ensuing conference, where a selected number of authors will be invited to
speak, we seek to take stock of the state of the art of the Court’s
potentialities and weaknesses, to reveal how and why the Court’s case law,
advisory opinions, and orders remain an area of academic and pedagogical
interest, and to contribute to the process of discussion on the strengthening
of the Inter-American System that has been taking place in the past years, and
resulted in, inter alia, the reform
of the Court’s Rules of Procedure.
THE BOOK
The book has two
main sections: a general section and a case-study section. The general section is
dedicated to the study of the functioning of the Court and its relation with
other international bodies, including the Inter-America Commission, as well as
national courts and tribunals. The case-study section will cover the most
important judgments, advisory opinions, orders for provisional measures and
monitoring of compliance issued by the Court during its existence. Particular
attention will be paid to the cases decided in the last 10 years, the most
active period of the Court.
The preliminary
structure of the book is the following:
PART I
THE FUNCTIONING OF THE COURT AND ITS RELATIONS WITH OTHER (INTER)NATIONAL
TRIBUNALS AND BODIES
A. Functioning of the
Court
1. Appointment,
election and nomination of judges
2. Strengths and/or
weaknesses of the Court
3. The legitimacy of
the Court
4. The new Rules of
Procedures of the Court
5. Amicus curiae before the Court
6. Fact-finding, witnesses
and expert witnesses before the Court
7. Discontinuance,
acquiescence, and friendly settlements before the Court
8. Concurring and
dissenting opinions
9. Provisional
measures
10. Reparations
11. Compliance with the
Court’s judgments and orders
12. The future of the
Court and the Inter-American System
B. Reasoning of the
Court
13. The processes of
interpretation, reasoning, and argumentation used by the Court
14. The evaluation of
evidence by the Court
15. The Court’s use of
soft law and global conventions.
16. Cultural relativism
and interculturality before the Court
C. The Court and the
Inter-American Commission
17. The interaction
between the Commission and the Court
18. The new role of the
Commission in the proceedings before the Court
19. The Court’s
jurisdiction to review the Commission’s decisions
D. Victims before the
Court
20. Victims’ access to
the Court
21. Victims’ locus standi
22. Identification of
victims
23. The Inter-American
Defender
24. The Victims’ Legal
Assistance Fund
E. States before the
Court
25. The referral of
cases to the Court by the States
26. Rights of the
States during the proceedings before the Court
27. Preliminary
objections and challenges of admissibility
28. Funding of the
Court
29. The Court and the
Organization of American States and its political bodies
30. Inter-state cases
F. The Court and other
international tribunals and bodies
31. The mutual
interaction or influence between the Inter-American Court and:
31.1. The European Court
of Human Rights,
31.2. The African
Commission and Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights,
31.3. The International
Court of Justice,
31.4. The International
Criminal Court, and
31.5. The United Nations’
treaty bodies (HRC, CAT, CEDAW, CRC, etc.)
G. The Court and
national judges and tribunals
32. The legal impact of
the Court’s judgments and orders in the domestic legal systems
33. The legal impact of
the domestic case law in the Court’s decisions
34. The conventionality
control
35. The mutual
interaction or influence between the Court and national tribunals
PART II
LANDMARK DECISIONS OF THE COURT (CASE-STUDIES)
1.
Indigenous peoples rights
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Xákmok Kásek Indigenous Community v.
Paraguay.
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Chitay Nech et al. v. Guatemala.
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Tiu-Tojín v. Guatemala.
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Saramaka People v. Suriname
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Escué-Zapata. v. Colombia.
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Sawhoyamaxa Indigenous Community v.
Paraguay.
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Moiwana Community v. Suriname.
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Yakye Axa Indigenous Community v.
Paraguay.
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López-Álvarez v. Honduras.
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Yatama v. Nicaragua.
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Mayagna (Sumo) Awas Tingni Community v. Nicaragua.
2.
Forced disappearances
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Gonzalez-Medina and relatives v.
Dominican Republic.
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Torres Millacura et al. v. Argentina.
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Ibsen-Cárdenas and Ibsen-Peña v.
Bolivia.
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Anzualdo-Castro v. Peru.
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Ticona-Estrada et al. v. Bolivia.
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Heliodoro-Portugal v. Panama.
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Goiburú et al. v. Paraguay.
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Gómez-Palomino v. Peru.
3.
Forced disappearances of children
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Contreras et al. v. El Salvador.
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Gelman v. Uruguay.
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Serrano-Cruz Sisters v. El Salvador.
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Molina-Theissen v. Guatemala.
4.
LGBT rights
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Atala Riffo and Daughters v. Chile.
5.
Freedom of expression
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Fontovecchia y D`Amico v. Argentina.
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Usón Ramírez v. Venezuela.
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Perozo et al. v. Venezuela.
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Ríos et al. v. Venezuela.
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Kimel v. Argentina.
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Claude-Reyes et al. v. Chile.
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Palamara-Iribarne v. Chile.
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Ricardo Canese v. Paraguay.
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Herrera-Ulloa v. Costa Rica.
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Compulsory Membership in an
Association Prescribed by Law for the Practice of Journalism. Advisory Opinion
OC-5.
6.
Human rights defenders
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Fleury et al. v. Haiti.
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Cabrera-García and Montiel-Flores v.
Mexico.
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Kawas-Fernández v. Honduras.
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Valle-Jaramillo et al. v. Colombia.
7.
Judicial protection
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Barbani Duarte et al. v. Uruguay.
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Mejía-Idrovo v. Ecuador.
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Acevedo-Jaramillo et al. v. Peru.
8.
Political Rights
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López Mendoza v. Venezuela.
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Manuel Cepeda-Vargas v. Colombia.
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Castañeda-Gutman v. Mexico.
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Yatama v. Nicaragua.
9.
Independence and impartiality of domestic
judges and tribunals
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Chocrón-Chocrón v. Venezuela.
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Reverón-Trujillo v. Venezuela.
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Apitz-Barbera et al. (“First Court of
Administrative Disputes”) v. Venezuela.
10.
Persons deprived of their liberty
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Vera-Vera et al. v. Ecuador
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Miguel Castro-Castro Prison v. Peru.
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Montero-Aranguren et al. (Detention
Center of Catia) v. Venezuela.
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López-Álvarez v. Honduras.
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Acosta-Calderón v. Ecuador.
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Case of Tibi v. Ecuador.
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"Juvenile Reeducation
Institute" v. Paraguay.
11.
Women’s rights
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Rosendo Cantú et al. v. Mexico.
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Fernández Ortega et al. v. Mexico.
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González et al. (“Cotton Field”) v.
Mexico.
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Miguel Castro-Castro Prison v. Peru.
12.
Right to Private Property
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Salvador-Chiriboga v. Ecuador.
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Abrill-Alosilla et al. v. Peru.
13.
Torture
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Bueno-Alves v. Argentina.
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Bayarri v. Argentina
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Cabrera-García and Montiel-Flores v.
Mexico.
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Rosendo Cantú et al. v. Mexico.
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Fernández Ortega et al. v. Mexico.
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Cantoral-Huamaní and García-Santa
Cruz v. Peru.
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Caesar v. Trinidad and Tobago.
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Case of Tibi v. Ecuador.
14.
Amnesty Laws
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Gomes-Lund et al. (Guerrilha do Araguaia) v. Brazil.
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Gelman v. Uruguay.
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Almonacid-Arellano et al. v. Chile.
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Barrios Altos v. Peru.
15.
Migrants
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Vélez Loor v. Panama.
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Juridical Condition and Rights of
Undocumented Migrants. Advisory Opinion OC-18.
16.
Extrajudicial executions
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Manuel Cepeda-Vargas v. Colombia.
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“Las Dos Erres” Massacre v.
Guatemala.
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Garibaldi v. Brazil.
-
Escué-Zapata. v. Colombia.
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The Rochela Massacre v. Colombia.
-
García-Prieto et al. v. El Salvador.
-
Cantoral-Huamaní and García-Santa
Cruz v. Peru.
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Zambrano-Vélez et al. v. Ecuador.
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Pueblo Bello Massacre v. Colombia.
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Mapiripán Massacre v. Colombia.
17.
Economic, social, and cultural rights
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Acevedo-Buendía et al.
("Discharged and Retired Employees of the Office of the Comptroller")
v. Peru.
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“Five Pensioners” v. Peru.
18.
Military tribunals
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Radilla-Pacheco v. Mexico.
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Usón Ramírez v. Venezuela.
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Almonacid-Arellano et al. v. Chile.
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Palamara-Iribarne v. Chile.
19.
Right to appeal
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Barreto-Leiva v. Venezuela.
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Herrera-Ulloa v. Costa Rica.
20.
Death penalty
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Dacosta-Cadogan v. Barbados.
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Boyce et al. v. Barbados.
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Raxcacó-Reyes v. Guatemala.
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Fermín Ramírez v. Guatemala.
-
Restrictions to the Death Penalty
(Arts. 4(2) and 4(4) American Convention on Human Rights). Advisory Opinion
OC-3/83.
21.
Interception and
dissemination of telephone conversations
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Escher et al. v. Brazil.
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Tristán-Donoso v. Panama.
22.
Illegal and arbitrary detentions
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Chaparro-Álvarez and Lapo-Íñiguez v.
Ecuador.
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Yvon Neptune v. Haiti.
23.
Nationality
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Girls Yean and Bosico v. Dominican
Republic.
24.
Children’s rights
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Servellón-García et al. v. Honduras.
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Serrano-Cruz Sisters v. El Salvador.
-
Girls Yean and Bosico v. Dominican
Republic.
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“Juvenile Reeducation Institute” v.
Paraguay.
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Gómez-Paquiyauri Brothers v. Peru.
-
Bulacio v. Argentina.
-
Juridical Condition and Human Rights
of the Child. Advisory Opinion OC-17.
25.
Use of force
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Montero-Aranguren et al. (Detention
Center of Catia) v. Venezuela.
26.
Persons with disabilities
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Ximenes-Lopes v. Brazil.
27.
Freedom from slavery
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Ituango Massacres v. Colombia.
CONTRIBUTIONS
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Authors may decide to contribute in
any of the above mentioned topics or cases.
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Authors may also choose to comment
one case only or on all relevant cases of one topic.
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Authors are also free to suggest
other topics or cases not listed in Part I or Part II.
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Individual or team contributions will
be accepted.
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The contributions must be original.
Articles or book chapters already published (whether in English or any other
language) will not be accepted.
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Legal researchers, academics,
practitioners, LLM or PhD students, post-doctoral researchers, and legal
scholars are invited to submit original proposals.
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Researchers of other social sciences
may also present proposals.
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Undergraduate students may not participate
unless as a co-author.
LANGUAGE
The book is
expected to be a bilingual publication (English and Spanish). However, at least
80% of the chapters will be in English. Therefore, authors are strongly advised
to submit their proposals in English.
PROCEDURE
Stage 1:
Call for Abstracts
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The Human Rights Centre requests preliminary
statements of research projects (abstracts) not to exceed 1,000 words
(including footnotes). The abstracts should include:
i)
a (preliminary) title of the proposed contribution;
ii)
an indication of whether the contribution is related
to the first or the second section of the book;
iii)
a brief description of the issue(s) addressed in the
contribution;
iv)
the proposed research question(s); and
v)
a brief description of the academic or practical
relevance of the proposed research.
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The abstracts shall not include any reference to the
author, in order to facilitate the double blind peer-review.
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Authors should also send a CV (max. 3 pages) in a separate
file.
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Each author may submit up to 2 abstracts, whether
individually or collectively.
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Only electronic documents in Word format will be accepted
on the following email address: ugenthrc@yahoo.com
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The deadline for the submission of the abstracts is 15 November 2012.
Stage 2: Double-blind
peer-review and invitation to submit articles
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The editorial board will blindly review each submitted
abstract and will announce its decision no later than 15 February 2013.
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The selected authors will be invited to develop the
research proposal further and to present an academic article.
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Authors that were not selected for the book, may, if
the abstract is of quality, be invited to present an academic article for the
next volumes of the Inter-American and
European Human Rights Journal.
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Articles related to the general part of the book (Part
I) should contain a minimum of 5,000 words and a maximum of 10,000 words
(footnotes included).
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Articles related to the case-study section of the book
(Part II) should contain a minimum of 5,000 words and a maximum of 8,000 words
(footnotes included).
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Longer articles will be accepted exceptionally.
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All papers shall be sent to the following email address
35YearsInterAmericanCourt@gmail.com
no later
than 16 September 2013.
Stage 3:
Review of papers, corrections and publication
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After receiving the papers submitted by the authors,
the Editorial Committee will review each piece and may accept it without
comments, with comments, or may reject the piece.
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The decision of the Committee will be announced on 16 December 2013.
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If the Editorial Committee decides to accept an
article with comments, authors will be given until 15 January 2014 to insert the comments, suggestions or corrections
made by the Committee.
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The book will be published in the first semester of
2014 by Intersentia Publishers (Cambridge/Antwerp).
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For each contribution 2 copies of the book will be
provided (irrespective of the number of authors), and a discount of 25% per additional
copy.
Stage 4:
Selection of speakers for International Conference “35 Years of Inter-American
Court of Human Rights: Theory and Practice, Present and Future” (to be organised by the Human Rights Centre in 2014).
Editorial Committee
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Prof. Dr. Yves Haeck, Professor of International Human
Rights Law, Human Rights Centre, Ghent University, Belgium.
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Dr. Clara Burbano Herrera, Postdoctoral Research
Fellow, Human Rights Centre, Ghent University, Belgium.
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Mr. Oswaldo Ruiz Chiriboga, Research Fellow, Human
Rights Centre, Ghent University.
HUMAN RIGHTS CENTRE, GHENT UNIVERSITY
The
Human Rights Centre of Ghent University aims to promote and
coordinate research in the field of international human rights, to provide
education and disseminate information on human rights and freedoms, both in
Belgium and abroad. Its research activities are mainly focused on the
functioning of regional human rights systems. The Human Rights Centre is
currently composed of 45 researchers from all over the globe (at the level of
professor, postdoctoral or doctoral researchers). The Human Rights Centre works
closely together with African-, European- and Latin American-based
universities, institutes and research centres, united in the Latin American and
European Network on Human Rights. Its members host a number of influential
blogs on the functioning and the case law of the Inter-American Court of Human
Rights (http://corteidhblog.blogspot.com), on the case law of the European Court of Human Rights (http://strasbourgobservers.com), and on the top international human rights courses and traineeships in
Europe (http://www.internationalhumanrightscourses.blogspot.com). The Human Rights Centre also edits the “Inter-American & European
Human Rights Journal / Revista Interamericana & Europea de Derechos
Humanos”, a journal that aims to offer an international platform for research
in the field of human rights of relevance for (Latin) America and Europe.
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