The jurisprudence of the UN human rights treaty bodies and its contributions to international human rights law
Currently, there are eight distinct UN treaty bodies with competence to receive individual communications and adopt decisions (or ‘views’ in UN parlance). Over the last decade, the number of individual communications submitted to the treaty bodies has resulted in a dramatic expansion of their case law. Yet, the UN treaty bodies case law is little known to academics, practitioners and students. The project offers to fill a gap concerning the sustained and comparative treatment of the case law of the UN treaty bodies.
This research project aims to shed light on the jurisprudence of the UN human rights treaty bodies and its contributions to international human rights law. In doing so, it will demonstrate and defend interdependence-oriented treaty interpretation on cross cutting themes.
Within the scope of this project, Başak Çalı, Professor of International Law at the Hertie School and Co-Director of the Centre for Fundamental Rights, and Alexandre Skander Galand, Assistant Professor, International and European Law, Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, lead a team of human rights law experts to analyse and report on the decisions of UN Treaty Bodies as part of the Oxford Reports on International Law (ORIL): International Human Rights Law (IHRL) Module.
Project leads
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Başak Çalı, Professor of International Law at the Hertie School and Director of the Centre for Fundamental Rights.
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Alexandre Skander Galand, Assistant Professor, International and European Law, Faculty of Law, Maastricht University.
Associate editors of the Oxford Reports on International Law (ORIL): International Human Rights Law (IHRL) Module
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Betül Durmuş, Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Fundamental Rights.
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Aristi Volou, Teaching Associate in Public Law at Queen Mary, University of London.
