Domestic Institutionalisation of Human Rights

Stéphanie Lagoutte is Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for Human Rights, Copenhagen, Denmark. She holds a doctoral degree in Law from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a PhD in Law from the Aarhus University, Denmark. Most of her work focuses on the duties and role of the state in human rights protection.Sébastien Lorion is Senior Adviser at the Danish Institute for Human Rights, Copenhagen, Denmark. He holds a PhD degree from the University of Copenhagen and undertakes legal and social sciences research focusing on governmental human rights focal points, national human rights action plans and national human rights institutions.Steven L.B. Jensen is Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for Human Rights, Copenhagen, Denmark. He holds a PhD degree from the University of Copenhagen. His areas of work have mainly focused on the historical evolution of human rights, health and human rights as well as national human rights institutions.

• The Domestic Institutionalisation of Human Rights: An Introduction Steven L. B. Jensen, Stéphanie Lagoutte and Sébastien Lorion1. The Role of State Actors Within the National Human Rights SystemStéphanie Lagoutte2. Parliaments as Human Rights Actors: The Potential for International Principles on Parliamentary Human Rights CommitteesKirsten Roberts Lyer3. Business and Human Rights: From Domestic Institutionalisation to Transnational Governance and Back AgainClaire Methven O’Brien and Jolyon Ford4. A Model for National Human Rights Systems? New Governance and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Sébastien Lorion5. NHRI Engagement with UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies: A Goal-based ApproachDomenico Zipoli6. Establishing an NHRI in a Contested Political Space: A Deliberative Process in IsraelTomer Broude and Natan Milikowsky