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6 J. Int'l L & Int'l Rel. 35 (2010-2011)
Partial Compliance: A Comparison of the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights

handle is hein.journals/jilwirl6 and id is 43 raw text is: Partial Compliance A Comparison of the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights DARREN HAWKINS AND WADE JACOBY I. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................... 35 II. DEFINING AND EXPLAINING COMPLIANCE: CLARIFYING THE CURRENT DEBATE............................................39 III. COMPARING REGIMES: CHECKLIST VS. DELEGATIVE COMPLIANCE..................................43 1. M EASURING COMPLIANCE ...................................................... 44 2. MEASURING COMPLIANCE: THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT.......45 3. MEASURING COMPLIANCE: THE EUROPEAN COURT .........51 IV. PARTIAL COMPLIANCE: GENERAL PATTERNS................................55 1. THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT.............................56 2. THE EUROPEAN COURT ................................66 3. TYPES OF PARTIAL COMPLIANCE: THE IACHR AND ECTHR COMPARED..................................77 V . CONCLUSIONS................................................................................. 83 I. Introduction Expectations about the level of state compliance with international human rights norms vary widely, but tend to cluster around the extremes of high compliance or low compliance. Legal scholars such as Louis Henkin', and Abram Chayes and Antonia Chayes,2 suggest that most states obey most laws most of the time. In the same vein, some political scientists suggest that when international institutions socialize states, the result is either stable compliance with international rules or an even deeper transformation of . Professors of Political Science at Brigham Young University. The authors thank Karen Alter, Rachel Cichowski, Samantha Besson, Laurence Helfer, Mikhail Lobov, Will Moore, Beth Simmons, Jeffrey Staton, and participants in various roundtables and workshops for helpful comments on earlier drafts. Heidi Gasparrini, Moises Costa, Britney Draney, Annie Fuller, and Nicholas Jones provided valuable research assistance. ' Louis Henkin, How Nations Behave: Law and Foreign Policy, 2d ed. (New York Columbia University Press, 1979) at 47. 2Abram Chayes & Antonia Chayes, On Compliance (1993) 47 Int'l Org. 175. @ Journal of International Law and International Relations Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 35-85. ISSN: 1712-2988.

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