The Centre for European Law & the Transnational Law Institute would like to invite you to a seminar with Professor Jorge Contesse, Rutgers Law School, USA. He will be discussing 'Supremacy, Dialogue and Resistance: The Inter-American Court of Human Rights and Its Relationship with National Courts'.

Abstract:

Supremacy, dialogue and resistance are familiar concepts to scholars of national compliance with judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights. In the past decade, these concepts have emerged in Latin America and the Caribbean in relation to decisions of the Inter-American Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. This presentation will discuss the Court's assertion of authority under the American Convention and how States resist inter-American human rights law

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Biography:

Professor Contesse received his LL.M. and J.S.D. from Yale Law School where he was a Fulbright Scholar and a Senior Editor of the Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal. He was a Crowley Fellow in International Human Rights at Fordham University School of Law, a visiting professor at the University of Miami School of Law, a visiting resource professor at the University of Texas School of Law, and an assistant professor at Diego Portales University School of Law in Santiago, Chile, from which he received his degree in law and social sciences and where is currently a permanent visiting professor. Prior to joining the Rutgers’ faculty, he was a Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School’s Schell Center for International Human Rights and served as a board member for Chile’s National Human Rights Institute.

Professor Contesse has litigated and acted as expert witness in cases before both the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, on issues regarding sexual orientation, the use of anti-terrorist laws, freedom of expression and the rights of indigenous peoples.