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Towards a common institutional trajectory? Individual complaints before UN treaty bodies during their 'Booming' years

dc.contributor.coauthorGaland, Alexandre Skander
dc.contributor.kuauthorÇalı, Başak
dc.contributor.kuprofileFaculty Member
dc.contributor.researchcenterCenter for Global Public Law (CGPL) / Küresel Kamu Hukuku Çalışmaları Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi (KÜREMER)
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstituteLaw School
dc.contributor.yokidN/A
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-10T00:07:56Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractThe expanding number of UN treaty bodies with competence to rule on individual complaints as well as the increasing amount of complaints lodged before these bodies trigger the question whether they are capable of acting as a unified institution when dealing with individual complaints or whether they remain as a fragmented institutional site. In this article, we comparatively analyse the case law of all treaty bodies between 2013 and 2016 with the aim of assessing whether UN treaty bodies are moving towards a common institutional trajectory. We find that despite textual differences, the treaty bodies' case law displays both early signs of a common institutional trajectory and risks of institutional fragmentation. The most significant common institutional trends are access friendliness; self-referential citations, a preference for implicit harmonisation; and case by case activism with respect to individual remedies. Yet, we also identify lack of systematic and explicit cross treaty-fertilization and diverging approaches to specifying general remedies as risks that may undermine the formation of a common institutional trajectory. We argue that the early signs of informal collective institutionalisation may be capable of fostering a common institutional identity in the years to come, if risks of fragmentation are acknowledge and mitigated.
dc.description.indexedbyWoS
dc.description.indexedbyScopus
dc.description.issue8
dc.description.openaccessYES
dc.description.publisherscopeInternational
dc.description.volume24
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13642987.2019.1709447
dc.identifier.eissn1744-053X
dc.identifier.issn1364-2987
dc.identifier.quartileQ2
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85078057471
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2019.1709447
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/16868
dc.identifier.wos507564400001
dc.keywordsUN treaty bodies
dc.keywordsComparative international human rights law
dc.keywordsHuman rights remedies
dc.keywordsFragmentation
dc.keywordsUN treaty body reform
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherRoutledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd
dc.sourceInternational Journal of Human Rights
dc.subjectLaw
dc.titleTowards a common institutional trajectory? Individual complaints before UN treaty bodies during their 'Booming' years
dc.typeJournal Article
dspace.entity.typePublication
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local.contributor.kuauthorÇalı, Başak

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