Inter-American Court of Human Rights and Its Transformative Impact: Addressing Structural and Emerging Regional Challenges

The book aims to focus on the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and its transformative impact, in light of structural and emerging regional challenges. The first part of the book will be dedicated to studying the transformative mandate of the Inter-American Court, highlighting the Ius Constitutionale Commune in Latin America (ICCAL), institutional resilience, and the community of practice. The second part will address the Inter-American Court in the face of structural regional challenges, emphasizing the collapse of dictatorships, transitional justice, democratic institutionalism, the fight against inequalities, and historical discriminations, with a focus on vulnerabilities and intersectionalities. Finally, the third part will analyze the Inter-American Court in light of emerging regional challenges, encompassing the themes of business and human rights, climate emergency, and new technologies.

Armin von Bogdandy is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and Professor of Public Law at the University of Frankfurt/ Main. He has been president of the OECD Nuclear Energy Tribunal as well as a member of the German Science Council and the Scientific Committee of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights. He has held visiting positions at the New York University School of Law, the European University Institute, the Xiamen Academy of International Law, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico, among others. Armin von Bogdandy is the recipient of the Leibniz Prize; the prize for outstanding scientific achievements in the field of legal and economic foundations by the Berlin- Brandenburg Academy of Sciences; the Premio Internacional Fix- Zamudio; and the gavel of the Inter- American Court of Human Rights.

Flávia Piovesan is a Professor of Constitutional Law and Human Rights at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC- SP). She was a human rights visiting fellow at the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School in 1995 and 2000; a fellow at the Centre for Brazilian Studies, at the University of Oxford in 2005; and has been a visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law on numerous occasions. From 2009 to 2014, she was at the Institute as a Humboldt Foundation Georg Forster Research Fellow. She was also a Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University (DRLCAS) in 2018. Flavia Piovesan is a former member of the UN High Level Task Force on the implementation of the right to development and of the OAS Working Group working on the monitoring of the Protocol of San Salvador on social, economic, and cultural rights. In 2016, she was appointed Special Secretary for Human Rights in Brazil and President of the National Commission against Forced Labor. She was a Vice President and a Commissioner for the Inter- American Commission on Human Rights. She was the recipient of the Humboldt Georg Foster Research Award in 2022.

Eduardo Ferrer Mac-Gregor is a former judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (2013-2024), serving as President (2017-2018), Vice President (2016-2017, 2023), and ad hoc Judge (2009-2010). He is currently a member of the International Commission of Jurists (Geneva) and a senior researcher at the National University of Distance Education (UNED) in Madrid. He has served as a senior researcher at the Institute for Legal Research and as a law professor at the Law School, both of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Eduardo Ferrer Mac-Gregor has served as a visiting professor and/or lecturer at numerous universities and research centers in Europe, the United States, and Latin America, including Paris-Sorbonne University (Panthéon-Paris), American University College of Law (Washington, D.C.), the Complutense University of Madrid, and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg).

Mariela Morales Antoniazzi is a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. She studied law at Andrés Bello Catholic University, obtained her LLM at the University of Heidelberg, and earned her PhD at the University of Frankfurt/ Main. Her doctoral thesis focuses on the suprana- tional protection of democracy in South America and the Ius Constitutionale Commune. Mariela Morales Antoniazzi is a visiting professor at various Latin American universities and Vice President of the German section of the Iberoamerican Institute of Constitutional Law. She coordinates the Ius Constitutionale Commune en América Latina (ICCAL) project at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law.