Doctoral Dissertation Research: Expanding Rights Claims Before Supranational Courts

学术研究已经证明了利用法律制度扩大权利主张的挑战；执行是困难的，往往需要动员团体的持续关注。然而，世界各地的组织都转向超国家法院提出索赔。尽管关于人权法院以及人们和组织如何动员法律的研究越来越多，但我们缺乏一项比较研究来解释关注就业条件的群体何时以及如何转向国际人权法院，以及考虑到将索赔转化为法律和实践的困难，他们期望获得什么。超国家法院的介入是最近在就业政策领域出现的；大多数时候，索赔都留给了国家法院。这项研究将产生关于欧洲人权法院正在发展的劳工问题判例法的数量数据和对两个动员案例的质量分析，以评估有关就业的努力。该项目将评估组织在没有其他机构可用的特定领域向法院求助的假设。在这样做的过程中，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、分析并传播欧洲人权法院劳工案件的第一个综合数据库，欧洲人权法院是一个重要的超国家机构，但人们对它的了解并不充分。该数据库将提供关于谁动员、动员在法庭结果和群体索赔方面的影响以及扩大对权利的理解的资料。这一跨国纵向数据库将对研究人员分析法院不断演变的做法至关重要。这项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.