Ezgi Yildiz
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Yildiz is a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, and a postodoctoral researcher at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland. She conducts interdisciplinary research on international relations and international law, and specializes in international courts and human rights with a focus on the European Court of Human Rights, and the prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment. Yildiz is conducting research on the prohibition on torture and investigating how the institutional practices of the European Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights shape international human rights norms.
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Compares the reform processes at the European and the Inter-American Human Rights Systems.
Takes a closer look at the European Court of Human Rights and provides a framework for understanding how court rulings develop norms – that is, how judicial decisions modify norms’ content or scope.
Explains the way the European Court of Human Rights determines the extraterritorial application of the European Convention of Human Rights and attributes state obligations for human rights violations perpetrated beyond their borders.
Looks at the relation between legal cultures and practices through the lenses of practice theory. In particular, it focuses on public hearings at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) and explains how legal cultures and ethos shape the way public hearings are organized
Explains the changes in the understanding of the norm against torture and inhuman or degrading treatment. Traces its evolution, taking the European human rights system as a reference point.
Explores how the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has approached extraterritorially-committed violations of human rights. Traditionally, the ECtHR has been wary of extending the application of the European Convention of Human Rights beyond the territories of European countries. Examines the varyingly strict criteria that the ECtHR devised for ensuring accountability for human rights violations perpetrated beyond the territorial boundaries of European states.
Investigates the procedure's creation through the prism of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. Analyzes its subsequent institutionalization and application in the case law. Illustrates the structural changes generated by the procedure, and examines the reasons undermining the effectiveness of its operation.
Gives an account on how the European Court of Human Rights' jurisprudence has transformed the norm's nature and scope. Analyzes the preparatory works and conducts large-scale content analysis on the relevant case law for the period between 1948 and 2006.