The withdraw of Member-states from Human Rights Courts: is the judicialization of mega-politics a necessary condition?
Journal: Revista de Direito Internacional
Year: 2022

Currently, there are about 24 functioning international courts. Within the interdisciplinary field of International Law and International Relations, a new agenda has focused in evaluating the process of the States’ resistance to adhere to decisions by those international institutions. A specific way to resist is the withdrawal by States that are party to regional human rights courts (RHRC). This paper is particularly interested in investigating this phenomenon. Based on the ideas of Ran Hirschl,