AMICI - Amici Curiae in International Human Rights Courts

Civil society actors are lauded as central in setting and advancing human rights, and regularly engage with human rights courts (HRC) to influence the scope of rights protection. Increasingly, this includes when acting as ‘friends of court’ - or ‘amici curiae’ - through third party interventions (TPIs) in disputes between states and victims of human rights abuses. Anecdotal evidence suggests TPIs may affect HRCs’ outcomes, yet at present we lack comprehensive, systematic analysis and empirical evidence of how they do so. AMICI seeks to address this gap. It constructs a dataset of decisions with third-party interventions to investigate the role of third-party interveners and interventions on the behaviour of international human rights courts.

Affiliated researchers

Name	Title
Estefania Giaccone	Ph.D. candidate at Faculty of Law at the University of Buenos Aires
Ezgi Yildiz	Assistant Professor, Bowdoin College
Francisco Rivera Juaristi	Professor and Director, International Human Rights Clinic
Hannah Katz	PhD student, University of Haifa
Işil Kurnaz	PhD student, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
Maria Jose Luque Macias	Senior researcher, Ghent University
Sam Chollet	PhD student, Université de Lausanne
Tomasz Dudek	Senior project officer, European Law Institute (ELI)