Enforcing human rights judgments - voluntary compliance to forcible enforcement?

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. 

Meet The Speakers

Achilleas Demetriades, advocate before the European Court of Human Rights and President of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe

Professor Philip Leach, Professor Middlesex University. 

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