Vienna Lecture on the European Union

Utl.: How and why international organizations develop mechanisms for
the protection of human rights =

Wien (OTS) - The policies of European and international institutions
today directly impact the lives of individuals ever more often. In
doing so, these institutions occasionally violate human rights and
thus fail to do justice to standards of legitimacy with which they
are expected to conform. We show in this contribution that
international und European organizations, in order to (re-)legitimize
themselves, establish provisions which should guarantee they do not
violate human rights and which should provide affected individuals
avenues for complaint.

However, the development of human rights protection provisions does
not follow the logic of normative functionalism. Rather, different
international institutions develop provisions of different quality.

Moreover, the evolution of these provisions can be traced back to
different causal mechanisms, in which the parliaments of the dominant
member states of the international organization, the international
courts, a coalition of putative weak, i.e. like-minded actors, or
forward-looking actors within the organization provide decisive
input. Of these four causal mechanisms, the court driven one seems to
produce the best protection of individual rights.

Vienna Lecture on the European Union

 Lecture:  
 Michael Zürn (Berlin Social Science Center) 
 
 Comments:
 Ulrich Brand (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Vienna)
 Monika Mayrhofer (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights) 
 
 Moderator: 
 Gerda Falkner (Institute and Platform for European Integration
 Research, University of Vienna)


 Datum:   23.3.2015, 17:00 - 19:00 Uhr
 Ort:     Aula, Campus der Universität Wien Hof 1.11
          Spitalgasse, 1090 Wien

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