Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Institutional change and the Inter-American Human Rights System Part 1: Institutional Change in Historical Perspective 2. Silence, hindrances and omissions: the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Brazilian military dictatorship 3. Assessing the record of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Latin America’s rural conflict zones (1979–2016) Part 2: Normative and Legal Change 4. The international authority of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: a critique of the conventionality control doctrine 5. Two steps forward, one step back: reflections on the jurisprudential turn of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on domestic reparation programmes 6. Preventive reparations at a crossroads: the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and Colombia’s search for peace Part 3: Challenges and Change 7. Institutional complexity in the Inter-American Human Rights System: an investigation of the prohibition of torture 8. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights’ new Strategic Plan: an opportunity for true strengthening

About the Author

Par Engstrom is Associate Professor of Human Rights at the Institute of the Americas at University College London, UK. He is the editor of The Inter-American Human Rights System: Impact Beyond Compliance (2018) and the academic coordinator of the Inter-American Human Rights Network.

Courtney Hillebrecht is the Samuel Clark Waugh Professor of International Relations and Director of the Forsythe Family Program on Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA, where she is also an Associate Professor of Political Science. She is the author of Domestic Politics and International Human Rights Tribunals: The Problem of Compliance (2014).