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.
Researchers
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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 |
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| Sam Chollet | PhD student, Université de Lausanne |  |
| Senior project officer, European Law Institute (ELI) |  |
