Volume 5 : 1
Translation Challenges of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and Cost-Effective Proposals for Improvement
American Convention on Human Rights Articles 46(1)(a) and 46(2)(c): Achilles Heel or Trojan Horse?
Measures of Reparation for Victims of Gross Human Rights Violations: Developments and Challenges in the Jurisprudence of Two Regional Human Rights Courts
The Institutionalization of People with Mental Disabilities: Comparative Analysis between Its Treatment under the Inter-American and European System of Human Rights
Interpreting the European Convention: What can the African Human Rights System Learn from the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights on the Interpretation of the European Convention?
Gobernar desde abajo: Del control de convencionalidad a la instrumentalización de la inversión estructural de la pirámide kelseniana
Advocacy for a U.S. Commission of Inquiry on Torture in the Context of the “War on Terror” Inspired by the Latin American Experience: Chile and El Salvador
El sistema africano: Pilar más incipiente de la trilogía de mecanismos regionales de salvaguardia de los derechos humanos
Implementation of Judgments: Should Supervision be Unlinked from the General Assembly of the Organization of American States?
Translation Challenges of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and Cost-Effective Proposals for Improvement
American Convention on Human Rights Articles 46(1)(a) and 46(2)(c): Achilles Heel or Trojan Horse?
Measures of Reparation for Victims of Gross Human Rights Violations: Developments and Challenges in the Jurisprudence of Two Regional Human Rights Courts
The Institutionalization of People with Mental Disabilities: Comparative Analysis between Its Treatment under the Inter-American and European System of Human Rights
Interpreting the European Convention: What can the African Human Rights System Learn from the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights on the Interpretation of the European Convention?
Gobernar desde abajo: Del control de convencionalidad a la instrumentalización de la inversión estructural de la pirámide kelseniana
Advocacy for a U.S. Commission of Inquiry on Torture in the Context of the “War on Terror” Inspired by the Latin American Experience: Chile and El Salvador
El sistema africano: Pilar más incipiente de la trilogía de mecanismos regionales de salvaguardia de los derechos humanos
Implementation of Judgments: Should Supervision be Unlinked from the General Assembly of the Organization of American States?
Year
2012
Volume
5
Number
1
Page
3
Language
English
Court
Reference
Á. PAÚL, “Translation Challenges of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and Cost-Effective Proposals for Improvement”, IAEHR 2012, nr. 1, 3-26
Recapitulation
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights, a regional adjudicating body, is fairly influential in domestic legal systems in the Americas. Its case law has also importance in other international forums, which the Court promotes by translating its judgments into English. The effort involved in translating the Court’s case law is praiseworthy. However, translating legal documents is a difficult task, and the translations of the Court’s case law are not always felicitous. In some cases they have even mislead scholars in the interpretation of the Court’s case law. This paper, after pointing out some translation issues of the Inter- American Court, suggests ways in which the translations of the Court’s decisions could be improved, without necessarily requiring a higher expenditure. These suggestions include the temporary release of preliminary versions of the English translations of the Court’s decisions, the simplification of the language used in the judgments, and the reorientation of the publicity remedy which the Court usually orders.
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