Enforcing Human Rights Judgments - Voluntary Compliance to Forcible Enforcement?

About this event:

Decisions of international and regional human rights courts are complied with only to a limited extent. Although judgments in easy cases are often well respected, several disputes remain unenforced decades after the judgment. In this panel, the speakers will tackle these resistant compliers: from cases arising from Cyprus and Turkey, to Hungary and Poland, and Georgia and Russia. The panel - a mix of academics and practitioners - will explore when states comply voluntarily with judgments and what forcible strategies are available to enforce human rights judgments against recalcitrant states. The panel will also address how thousands of unenforced judgments  against Russia (who has left the European Court of Human Rights) could be forcibly enforced in the future. 

Speakers: 

• Achilleas Demetriades, Advocate in Cyprus
• Professor Philip Leach, Professor of Human Rights Law, Middlesex University & Matrix Chambers
• Dr Ula Aleksandra Kos, postdoc Copenhagen University 
• Edward Perez, doctoral student, UCL Laws 

Chair: 

Professor Veronika Fikfak, Professor of Human Rights and International Law, UCL SPP 
 

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