Reports/Expert Briefs

Expert Briefs to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

• Expert Opinion for the Advisory Opinion on Climate Change Emergency and Human Rights IACtHR, 2023: Expert Brief filed by the Notre Dame Law School Global Human Rights Clinic, in collaboration with the Notre Dame Reparations Design and Compliance Lab to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights within the framework of the request for an Advisory Opinion on Climate Change Emergency and Human Rights. 

Reports to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

• Compliance with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: Effective Dates of Compliance, 2020:  We registered actual dates of compliance for reparation measures ordered by the IACtHR, and compared them to the date of Court resolutions acknowledging compliance. The creation of the Supervision Unit in 2015 shortened the time between compliance and acknowledgment by several months. Analyses using the two dates differ slightly.
• Effect of Supervision Hearings on Compliance with Reparation Measures Ordered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, 2020:  In this document, we analyze the effect of supervision hearings on state compliance with reparation measures ordered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR). Our study covers all reparation measures awaiting compliance between 2007 and 2019.
• Compliance with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: Methodological Proposal and Preliminary Findings, 2019:  In this document, we advance a methodological proposal to assess levels of compliance with decisions of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The document presents historical trends, introduces the new methodology, and offers an analysis of 238 cases (1,782 reparation measures) decided by the Court by the end of 2018.

Reports to United Nations Bodies

• Inter-American Remedies on the Rights to Peaceful Assembly and Association: This brief Prepared for the Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association, for his Report to be presented at the 53rd session of the Human Rights Council, addresses the standards of non-repetition adopted by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights when dealing with the rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association.

Reports to the World Bank Inspection Panel 

• Literature Review of the World Bank Inspection Panel: This report reviews existing works about the World Bank Inspection Panel: its mandate and competences, its fact-finding powers and accountability procedures, its relationship to the World Bank Group, and its effectiveness as an accountability mechanism.

Reports to Domestic Courts

• Paraguay: Cumplimiento con el Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos: We estimate the time taken by Paraguay to comply with reparation measures resulting from friendly settlements in the Inter-American Human Rights System, reports on the merits issued by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and decisions of the Inter-American Court. Friendly settlements reduce time to compliance by 70% (in Spanish).

Workshops Summaries

• “Rethinking Compliance and Reparations in International Law”, 2020: This virtual workshop of the Notre Dame Reparations Lab (NDRL), part of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, convened scholars and practitioners around the Lab's efforts to develop a common methodology for the study and analysis of compliance with reparative orders of international adjudication bodies. The workshop worked toward developing a flexible framework to collect and organize information on compliance, to allow for a broad range of analytical strategies

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