El Departamento de Ciencia Política y Estudios Internacionales tiene el agrado de invitar al seminario Institutional Complexity and Compliance in the Inter-American Human Rights System, a cargo de Cristiane Lucena Carneiro. 

Abstract: The universe of multilateral regional and international human rights documents has grown increasingly dense during the last 37 years. Not only has the sheer number of human rights treaties multiplied, but states’ decision to ratify these treaties has become the norm, rather than the exception. The architecture of the international human rights system has thus become highly complex, displaying significant levels of overlap. What is the consequence of overlap of human rights institutions for the level of protection on the ground? What other factors may influence state compliance with human rights obligations within highly complex institutional settings? This project analyzes three key elements of the institutional architecture of the Inter-American Human Rights System (IAHRS), with the goal of studying the influence of these elements on state compliance with international human rights commitments. These elements are: 1) the level of institutional complexity in the IAHRS; 2) the impact of distinct regime design features of the IAHRS; and 3) characteristics of domestic institutions within members of the IAHRS. The project relies on the contribution of Alter and Meunier (2009), and on their understanding of institutional complexity, which focuses on overlap, parallelism, and nesting of international institutions. The work of Barbara Koremenos informs the analysis of regime design features (Koremenos 2016), wherein institutional flexibility plays a central role. The contribution of Beth Simmons in Mobilizing for Human Rights (2009) provides a unique analytical platform to decant the influence of domestic political institutions on state compliance with legal and quasi-legal obligations in the IAHRS. Underlying this investigation is the question raised in Hafner-Burton (2013), which challenges the usefulness of Law alone when it comes to implementation of human rights commitments. Three overarching questions frame the investigation, which draws from case studies of Brazil, Chile, and Peru. This analysis concentrates on the relationship between each of these three countries and human rights institutions (regional and international), on one hand, and their record of compliance with the right to physical integrity between 1980 and 2016, on the other hand

Expositora:

• Cristiane Lucena Carneiro, University of São Paulo

Moderadora:

• Hayley Stevenson, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

El evento será en inglés, sin traducción. Se desarrollará de forma presencial en el Campus Di Tella y de forma virtual a través de la plataforma Zoom. El día del evento se enviará por mail el link de acceso a los/las inscriptos/as.