Doctoral Dissertation Research: Expanding Rights Claims Before Supranational Courts

博士论文研究：在超国家法院扩大权利主张

• 批准号: 1423855
• 负责人: Michael McCann
• 金额: $ 2.52万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-07-01 至 2015-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1423855&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Expanding; Rights

Scholarship has demonstrated the challenges of using legal institutions to expand rights claims; implementation is difficult and often requires continuous attention by mobilized groups. Yet around the world organizations turn to supranational courts to make claims. Despite the increasing number of studies on human rights courts and how people and organizations mobilize law, we lack a comparative study that explains when and how groups concerned with employment conditions turn to international human rights courts, and what they expect to gain, given difficulties of the translation of claims into law and into practice. The involvement of supranational courts is recent in the employment policy domain; most of the time claims have been left to national courts. This research will generate both quantitative data on the developing case law on labor issues at the European Court of Human Rights and qualitative analyses of two cases of mobilization to assess the efforts concerning employment. The project will assess the hypothesis that organizations turn to courts in particular fields where no other institution is available. In doing so, the project will contribute to understanding of the interplay of institutions in significant policy domains. This research will produce, analyze, and disseminate the first comprehensive database on labor cases at the European Court of Human Rights, a significant supranational institution yet one that is not well-understood. The database will provide information concerning who mobilizes, what the effects of mobilization are in terms of court outcomes and group claiming, and the expansion of understandings of rights. This cross-national and longitudinal database will be pivotal for researchers seeking to analyze the Court's evolving approach. This timely research will contribute to multiple fields of study and provide social benefits by investigating the consequences of using international human rights law.

学术研究已经证明了利用法律机构扩大权利主张的挑战；执行起来很困难，往往需要动员起来的团体持续关注。 然而，世界各地的组织纷纷向超国家法院提出索赔。 尽管关于人权法院以及个人和组织如何运用法律的研究越来越多，但我们缺乏一项比较研究来解释关注就业条件的群体何时以及如何求助于国际人权法院，以及考虑到国际人权法院的困难，他们期望获得什么将权利要求转化为法律并付诸实践。 跨国法院最近才介入就业政策领域；大多数情况下，索赔都交由国家法院处理。 这项研究将产生有关欧洲人权法院正在制定的劳工问题判例法的定量数据，以及对两个动员案例的定性分析，以评估有关就业的努力。 该项目将评估以下假设：组织在没有其他机构可用的特定领域向法院求助。 在此过程中，该项目将有助于理解重要政策领域机构之间的相互作用。 这项研究将制作、分析和传播欧洲人权法院劳工案件的第一个综合数据库，欧洲人权法院是一个重要的超国家机构，但人们对其了解不多。该数据库将提供有关谁动员、动员对法庭结果和团体索赔的影响以及对权利理解的扩展等信息。 这个跨国纵向数据库对于寻求分析法院不断演变的方法的研究人员来说至关重要。这项及时的研究将有助于多个研究领域，并通过调查使用国际人权法的后果来提供社会效益。