Alec Stone Sweet is Sir Y. K. Pao Chair at the University of Hong Kong, and has previously held chaired professorships at the National University of Singapore, Yale University, and Nuffield College, Oxford. He works in the fields of comparative and international law, and comparative and international politics, with a focus on dispute resolution, law, and courts.Wayne Sandholtz holds the John A. McCone Chair and is Professor of International Relations and Law at the University of Southern California. His research addresses human rights treaties and courts, international norms, authoritarianism, and the rule of law.

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• 1: Introduction 2: The European Court of Human Rights 3: The Inter-American System of Human Rights 4: The African Regional Courts 5: Absolute Rights 6: The Qualified Rights 7: The Dilemma of Effectiveness

Alec Stone Sweet is Sir Y. K. Pao Chair at the University of Hong Kong, and has previously held chaired professorships at the National University of Singapore, Yale University, and Nuffield College, Oxford. He works in the fields of comparative and international law, and comparative and international politics, with a focus on dispute resolution, law, and courts.Wayne Sandholtz holds the John A. McCone Chair and is Professor of International Relations and Law at the University of Southern California. His research addresses human rights treaties and courts, international norms, authoritarianism, and the rule of law.

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• 1: Introduction 2: The European Court of Human Rights 3: The Inter-American System of Human Rights 4: The African Regional Courts 5: Absolute Rights 6: The Qualified Rights 7: The Dilemma of Effectiveness

Alec Stone Sweet is Sir Y. K. Pao Chair at the University of Hong Kong, and has previously held chaired professorships at the National University of Singapore, Yale University, and Nuffield College, Oxford. He works in the fields of comparative and international law, and comparative and international politics, with a focus on dispute resolution, law, and courts.Wayne Sandholtz holds the John A. McCone Chair and is Professor of International Relations and Law at the University of Southern California. His research addresses human rights treaties and courts, international norms, authoritarianism, and the rule of law.

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• 1: Introduction 2: The European Court of Human Rights 3: The Inter-American System of Human Rights 4: The African Regional Courts 5: Absolute Rights 6: The Qualified Rights 7: The Dilemma of Effectiveness