The Relationship Between Human Rights and Judicial Globalization (original) (raw)

There are numerous academic writings about the actors, factors, and mechanisms that shape and drive human rights at national, transnational, and international levels. However, the relationship between human rights and the process of judicial globalization remains underexplored in recent scholarship, and the purpose of this study is to explore such a relationship and its effects. First, we provide a brief theoretical background of both human rights and judicial globalization concepts, and then, we focus on the relationship between them. By investigating existing empirical data, we uncover how judicial globalization is effecting and shaping human rights through various mechanisms and their classifications. Finally, by using the theoretical and empirical tests, we respond to the normative question, whether the judicial globalization process is a suitable tool for the development of human rights at national, international, and transnational levels. The results of this paper show that hu...