Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Alves & Lixinski: Enforcing International Judgments Domestically: The Case of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Ayla do Vale Alves
(Adelaide Univ. - Law) & Lucas Lixinski (UNSW Sydney - Law) have published Enforcing International Judgments Domestically: The Case of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Brill | Nijhoff 2025). Here's the abstract:
This book broaches a hitherto unexplored subject. It is a systematic overview of the domestic implementation or enforcement of Inter-American Court of Human Rights Judgments across all the countries that accept its jurisdiction. This book urges (and allows) us to move beyond the discourse of "influence" of international courts, a discourse that, while helpful in some respects, also has limited usefulness for the victims of human rights violations in judgments. Comprehensive and theoretically sophisticated, this book sheds new light into how human rights law, international courts, and even international law more broadly can in fact be transformative on the ground.