ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Caroline de Lima e Silva

Caroline de Lima e Silva is a Postdoctoral fellow at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg (Georg-August-Universität). She has a PhD in Law, University of Copenhagen (iCourts) and a PhD in Political Science, Northwestern University.

POSTS BY Caroline de Lima e Silva

12 January 2021

Nico Krisch, Antoine Duval, César Rodríguez-Garavito, Machiko Kanetake, Caroline de Lima e Silva

Verticality and Struggles over Human Rights

How do different legal orders interact vertically? Is this interaction marked by conflict and contestation, or by compromise and collaboration? This panel looks at three different such interactions: between domestic courts and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights; between regional human rights courts and United Nations Treaty Bodies; and between Swiss domestic law and the lex sportiva. Continue reading >>