The Inter-American System of Human Rights

Professor David Harris is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Nottingham, Dr Stephen Livingstone is a Reader in Law at the same institution.

• 1. Regional Protection of Human of Human Rights: the Inter American Achievement ; 2. The Rise of the Inter American Human Rights Regime: No Longer a Unicorn, Not Yet an Ox ; 3. The Inter American Commission on Human Rights: Its Organisation and Examination of Petitions and Communications ; 4. The Role of Country Reports in the Inter American System of Human Rights ; 5. The Operation of the Inter American Court of Human Rights (1979-1996) ; 6. Reparations in the Inter-American System ; 7. The Interaction Between the Political Actors of the OAS, the Commission and the Court ; 8. The Civil and Political Rights Protected in the Inter-American System ; 9. The Protection of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights under the Inter-American System of Human Rights ; 10. The Protection of Indigenous Peoples in the Inter-American System ; 11. Responses to Amnesties by the Inter American System for the Protection of Human Rights ; 12. States of Emergency in the Inter American System ; 13. The Inter American System at the Dawn of a New Century: Recommendations for Improvement of its Mechanism of Protection ; 14. Procedural Shortcomings in the Defence of Human Rights: An Inequality of Arms ; Appendices

Destined to be the standard work for the forseeable future on the Inter-American human rights system ... this weighty volume towers above other books on the subject ... Fourteen specialists ... give rounded, detailed, and thought-provoking observations ... a tome to which scholars and students of international human rights law will frequently refer.