Human Rights Promotion and Protection on the Global Stage

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

Human rights promotion occurs in a variety of ways in global politics, usually with stop and go processes or with diffusion and backlash. The set of papers in this panel examines the recent political processes of human rights promotion and protection. The first paper by Bryce, Johns, and Langer studies the new phenomenon of universal jurisdiction cases as a tool of human rights protection. The second paper by Comstock solves the puzzle of why some countries join human rights treaties later in the game. The third paper by Greenhill and Hillebrecht examines the novel dataset of outreach activities of the International Criminal Court. The fourth paper by Yildiz and Yüksel innovatively looks at the operation of the European Court of Human Rights and its relationship with states in various issues on the Court’s docket. Collectively, the panel presents four interesting papers that advance our theoretical and empirical understanding of human rights protection and promotion on the global stage.

Sub Unit

• Division 45: Human Rights

Individual Presentations

• Universal Jurisdiction of International Crimes: From Punishment to Protection? - Natalie Marisa Bryce, University of California, Los Angeles; Leslie Johns, University of California, Los Angeles; Maximo Langer

• Better Late than Never? Norm Stragglers and UN Human Rights Treaties - Audrey Lynn Comstock, Arizona State University

• Mitigating Backlash and Promoting Cooperation: The ICC beyond the Courtroom - Brian D. Greenhill, SUNY, University at Albany; Courtney Hillebrecht, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

• Issues Matter: Selective Restraint at the European Court of Human Rights - Ezgi Yildiz, California State University, Long Beach; Umut Yüksel, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Chair

• Hyeran Jo Texas A&M University

Discussants

• Francesca Parente Christopher Newport University

• Hyeran Jo Texas A&M University