Doctoral Dissertation Research: Expanding Rights Claims Before Supranational Courts

学术研究表明，利用法律的机构扩大权利主张存在挑战;执行工作很困难，往往需要动员起来的团体持续关注。 然而，在世界各地，组织转向超国家法院提出索赔。 尽管关于人权法院以及个人和组织如何利用法律的研究越来越多，但我们缺乏一项比较研究，解释关注就业条件的群体何时以及如何求助于国际人权法院，以及他们期望得到什么，因为将诉求转化为法律和实践存在困难。 在就业政策领域，超国家法院的参与是最近才出现的;大多数时候，索赔都留给国家法院处理。 这项研究将产生关于欧洲人权法院正在制定的劳工问题判例法的定量数据，以及对两个动员案件的定性分析，以评估有关就业的努力。 该项目将评估这样一种假设，即在没有其他机构的特定领域，各组织求助于法院。 这样，该项目将有助于了解各机构在重要政策领域的相互作用。 这项研究将产生，分析和传播第一个关于欧洲人权法院劳动案件的综合数据库，这是一个重要的超国家机构，但还没有得到很好的理解。该数据库将提供关于谁进行动员、动员在法院判决和群体诉求方面的影响以及扩大对权利的理解的信息。 这一跨国和纵向数据库将是研究人员试图分析法院不断演变的方法的关键。这一及时的研究将有助于多个研究领域，并通过调查使用国际人权法的后果提供社会效益。

Scholarship has demonstrated the challenges of using legal institutions to expand rights claims; implementation is difficult and often requires continuous attention by mobilized groups. Yet around the world organizations turn to supranational courts to make claims. Despite the increasing number of studies on human rights courts and how people and organizations mobilize law, we lack a comparative study that explains when and how groups concerned with employment conditions turn to international human rights courts, and what they expect to gain, given difficulties of the translation of claims into law and into practice. The involvement of supranational courts is recent in the employment policy domain; most of the time claims have been left to national courts. This research will generate both quantitative data on the developing case law on labor issues at the European Court of Human Rights and qualitative analyses of two cases of mobilization to assess the efforts concerning employment. The project will assess the hypothesis that organizations turn to courts in particular fields where no other institution is available. In doing so, the project will contribute to understanding of the interplay of institutions in significant policy domains. This research will produce, analyze, and disseminate the first comprehensive database on labor cases at the European Court of Human Rights, a significant supranational institution yet one that is not well-understood. The database will provide information concerning who mobilizes, what the effects of mobilization are in terms of court outcomes and group claiming, and the expansion of understandings of rights. This cross-national and longitudinal database will be pivotal for researchers seeking to analyze the Court's evolving approach. This timely research will contribute to multiple fields of study and provide social benefits by investigating the consequences of using international human rights law.