Este reporte fue elaborado por Oswaldo Ruiz-Chiriboga.
The European
Journal of Human Rights was launched in early 2013 as a response to the new
pathways through which human rights evolve. International treaties and new laws
continue to matter. But the development of human rights has become, first and
foremost, the result of a dialogue between courts, at all levels -- international,
regional and national --, and other human rights bodies, who contribute to
shape the "common law" of human rights in an organic, networked
fashion. The Journal therefore aims to
encourage doctrinal thinking and dialogue across legal venues, highlighting how
concepts and ideas migrate from forum to forum, permanently reshaping human
rights law.
The choice for a bilingual Journal mirrors this evolution. It is potentially a strength, but
it is also a challenge: the European
Journal of International Law was bilingual (French and English) until 2002,
when it moved to Oxford University Press.
Under the supervision of Professor Olivier De Schutter,
its Editor-in-chief and currently the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to
food, the Journal publishes high quality
review articles which are systematically submitted to a “double-blind peer-review”
mechanism.
In addition to those, each of the five annual issues
of the Journal also comprises an
analysis of the developments which took place in two areas of human rights over
the year – thus covering ten thematic issues annually. Lastly a “New
Developments” section presents, in the form of short summaries, the
developments that have occurred in the area of human rights since the last
issue of the Journal. This section is divided by themes and not only covers
developments of case-law but also political initiatives, negotiation of new
instruments and more.
Editorial of the first edition:
For more on the Journal, which welcomes submissions
either in French or in English, please visit the website --
or write to bruno.hardy@uclouvain.be.