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Michael Freitas Mohallem, Clara Burbano Herrera, Provisional Measures in the Case Law of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Human Rights Law Review, Volume 11, Issue 3, September 2011, Pages 603–606, https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngr019
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The procedures relating to, and outcomes of applications for, provisional measures of protection commonly receive significantly less academic assessment than final decisions on the merits. In the particular case of the Inter-American system of human rights, the insufficient attention paid to these measures stands in contrast with their importance. As Clara Burbano Herrera puts it, provisional measures are the ‘institution whose objective is to guarantee the practical effectiveness of rights so that they are not just rhetorical’ (p. 1).
Aiming at bridging the gap between importance and attention, this book dissects the relevant sections in the Rules of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the Rules of Procedure of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR) and, in particular, the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR or ‘the Court’) from 1987 to 2009, that is, 374 orders on provisional measures. The publication, which is the result of comprehensive research, is structured in eight chapters, richly detailed with graphics and tables and supported by more than 800 footnotes.
