The Hidden Hands of Justice
NGOs, Human Rights, and International Courts

This book represents the first comprehensive analysis of NGO participation at international criminal and human rights courts.

Heidi Nichols Haddad (Author)

9781108470926, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 9 August 2018

216 pages, 9 b/w illus. 20 tables
23.5 x 15.5 x 1.5 cm, 0.43 kg

'In The Hidden Hands of Justice, Heidi Nichols Haddad delivers a path breaking scholarly account of the myriad ways that NGOs interact with, support, legitimize, and seek to influence three of the most important contemporary supra-national courts. This book should command great interest from scholars, policymakers, and activists interested in gaining a deeper understanding of the potential as well as the limitations of NGOs in advancing human rights, international courts, and global governance more generally.' Victor Peskin, Arizona State University, University of California, Berkeley and author of International Justice in Rwanda and the Balkans: Virtual Trials and the Struggle for State Cooperation

The Hidden Hands of Justice: NGOs, Human Rights, and International Courts is the first comprehensive analysis of non-governmental organization (NGO) participation at international criminal and human rights courts. Drawing on original data, Heidi Nichols Haddad maps and explains the differences in NGO participatory roles, frequency, and impact at three judicial institutions: the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Human Rights System, and the International Criminal Court. The Hidden Hands of Justice demonstrates that courts can strategically choose to enhance their functionality by allowing NGOs to provide needed information, expertise, and services as well as shame states for non-cooperation. Through participation, NGOs can profoundly shape the character of international human rights justice, but in doing so, may consolidate civil society representation and relinquish their roles as external monitors.

Introduction: the overlooked partnerships
1. Mapping NGO participation
2. Seeking voice at the European Court of Human Rights
3. Revitalizing the inter-American Human Rights System
4. Rearing the fledging International Criminal Court Part I
5. Rearing the fledging International Criminal Court Part II
Conclusion: NGOs and international human rights justice.

Subject Areas: International courts & procedures [LBHG], International criminal law [LBBZ], International organisations & institutions [LBBU], International human rights law [LBBR], International law [LB], Law [L], Non-governmental organizations [NGOs JPWH], Human rights [JPVH], International relations [JPS]