UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies

Helen Keller is Professor of Constitutional, European and Public International Law at the University of Zurich. She served as a member of the UN Human Rights Committee from 2008 until 2011, when she was elected as a judge at the European Court of Human Rights. Geir Ulfstein is Professor of International Law at the Department of Public and International Law, University of Oslo. He is also a former Director of the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights.

• 1. Introduction Helen Keller and Geir Ulfstein; 2. Examination of state reports Walter Kälin; 3. Individual complaints Geir Ulfstein; 4. General comments of the Human Rights Committee and their legitimacy Helen Keller and Leena Grover; 5. The protection of economic and social rights: a particular challenge? Urfan Khaliq and Robin Churchill; 6. Aspects of human rights interpretation by the UN Treaty bodies Birgit Schlütter; 7. UN Treaty bodies and the Human Rights Council Nigel S. Rodley; 8. The legal status of decisions by human rights treaty bodies in national law Rosanne van Alebeek and André Nollkaemper; 9. Conclusions Helen Keller and Geir Ulfstein.