Our publications touch on several areas: compliance (including team's country reports), bias and behavioural approaches to the study of international law, remedies (damages), automated decision-making in courts, and the interaction and relationship between international and domestic levels of adjudication. 

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On compliance 

Veronika Fikfak. 'Against Settlement in the European Court of Human Rights'. (2022) 20.3 International Journal of Constitutional Law, forthcoming in 2022. 

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Veronika Fikfak and Lora Izvorova. 'Language and Persuasion: Dignity at the European Court of Human Rights.' (2022) 22.4 Human Rights Law Review, forthcoming 2022. 

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Aysel Küçüksu. 'Enforcing Rights Beyond Litigation: Mapping HRO Strategies in Monitoring ECtHR Judgment Implementation.' (2022) 22.3 Human Rights Law Review, forthcoming in 2022. 

• Aysel Küçüksu. 'In the Aftermath of a Judgment: Why Human Rights Organisations Should Harness the Potential of Rule 9'. Strasbourg Observers, 3 March 2021.

 

Veronika Fikfak. 'Structural Remedies: Human Rights Law.' Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law, 2022. 

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Katharina Luckner, Veronika Fikfak. 'Applications of ABM in International Legal Research: The Case of Compliance.' JURIX 2021. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2022. 

 

Veronika Fikfak. 'Compliance and Compensation: Money as a currency of human rights.' in Rachel Murray and Debra Long, Handbook on Implementation of Human Rights Law. (Edward Elgar, 2022). 
 

Country compliance reports

Ula Aleksandra Kos, Zita Barcza-Szabó and Veronika Fikfak. 'Hungary’s 75% ECHR Compliance Rate Re-examined'. iCourts Working Papers Series (forthcoming).

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Veronika Fikfak and Ula Kos. 'Slovenia - An Exemplary Complier With Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights?' iCourts Working Papers Series no. 249. 

• In Slovenian: Veronika Fikfak and Ula Kos. 'Izvrševanje in implementacija sodb Evropskega sodišča za človekove pravice: Slovenija kot vzorna država?' (2021) 40(8) Pravna Praksa, II-XI . 

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On behavioural approaches 

Veronika Fikfak, Daniel Peat, and Eva van der Zee. 'Bias in International Law.' (2022) 23.3 German Law Journal, forthcoming Symposium. ​

The Symposium includes contributions from: 

• Moshe Hirsch. 'Regulators’ Mindsets, Ingroup Favoritism, and the National Treatment Obligation in World Trade Organization Law.' 

• Benedikt Pirker and Izabela Skoczen. 'Pragmatic Inferences and Moral Factors in Treaty Interpretation—Applying Experimental Linguistics to International Law'. 

• Jonathan Kolieb. 'Consuming International Law: Towards an Experimental Research Agenda for Understanding the Effects of Corporate International Humanitarian Law Violations on Consumer Buying Behavior.' 

• Runar Hilleren Lie. 'The Influencers of International Investment Law: A Computational Study of ISDS Actors’ Changing Behavior'.

• Evangelia Nissioti. 'It Takes Three to Tango: A Behavioral Analysis of the Use of a Mediator in International Disputes.'

• Eva van der Zee. 'How Insights on Bounded Rationality Could Inform the International Law of Environmental Assessments.'

• Ezgi Yildiz and Umut Yüksel. 'Understanding the limitations of Behaviouralism: Lessons from the Field of Maritime Delimitation'.
   

Daniel Peat, Veronika Fikfak, and Eva van der Zee. 'Behavioural Compliance Theory.' (2022) 13.2 Journal of International Dispute Settlement 2022, forthcoming Symposium.

​The Symposium includes contributions from: 

• Daniel Peat. 'Perception and Process: Towards a Behavioural Theory of Compliance'. ​

• Niccolò Ridi and Veronika Fikfak. 'Sanctioning to Change State Behaviour'. 

• Sophie Duroy. 'State Compliance with International Law in Intelligence Matters: A Behavioural Approach.' 

 

Eva van der Zee, Veronika Fikfak, and Daniel Peat. 'Introduction to the Symposium on the Limitations of the Behavioural Turn in International Law.' American Journal of International Law Unbound, 21 July 2021.

​The Symposium includes contributions from: 

• Emilie M. Hafner-Burton. 'Elite Decision-making and International Law: Promises and Perils of the Behavioural Revolution'. 

• Sungjoon Cho. 'A Social Critique of Behavioral Approaches to International Law'. 

• Lauge Poulsen, Michael Waibel. 'Boilerplate in International Economic Law.' 

• Anne van Aaken. 'The Cognitive Psychology of Rules of Interpretation in International Law.' 

• Doron Teichman, Eyal Zamir. 'Normative Aspects of Nudging in the International Sphere'. 

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Veronika Fikfak, ​Justine Batura, and Christian Pogies. 'From Sticks to Carrots?: An Introduction to the Symposium on Rewarding in International Law.' Völkerrechtsblog, 7 June 2021, doi: 10.17176/20210607-123537-0.​

​The Symposium includes contributions from: 

• Daniel Peat. 'Rewarding Compliance'. Völkerrechtsblog, 8 June 2021.

• Silvia Steininger. 'Beyond Shaming'. Völkerrechtsblog, 9 June 2021.

• Luis F. Viveros-Montoya. 'Reparation and Judicial Discretion.' Völkerrechtsblog, 9 June 2021.

• Matej Avbelj. 'Rewarding in EU Law.' Völkerrechtsblog, 10 June 2021.

• Cristiane Lucena Carneiro. 'Designing Rewards.' Völkerrechtsblog, 11 June 2021.

• Veronika Fikfak, Anne van Aaken, Betül Simsek. 'On Rewarding in International Law: A Conversation with Anne van Aaken and Betül Simsek', Völkerrechtsblog, 11 June 2021.

 

On remedies 

Niccolò Ridi and Veronika Fikfak. 'Sanctioning to Change State Behaviour'. (2022) 13.2 Journal of International Dispute Settlement 2022.

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Veronika Fikfak. 'DRC v Uganda, 2022 Reparations Judgment.' (2022) Cambridge Law Journal. 

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Veronika Fikfak. 'Non-pecuniary damages before the European Court of Human Rights: Forget the victim; it’s all about the state.' (2020) Vol 33. Leiden Journal of International Law, 1-34. 

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Veronika Fikfak. ‘Changing State Behaviour: Damages before the European Court of Human Rights’. (2018) 29/4 European Journal of International Law, pages 1091-1125.

• Summary available at EJIL Live, Interview Episode 37. ​

• Veronika Fikfak. ‘Damages for Human Rights Violations before the European Court of Human Rights’ (2019) EHRAC blog (also translated to Russian).

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On automated decision-making 

Veronika Fikfak. 'What Future for Human Rights? Decision-making by Algorithm'. Strasbourg Observers, 19 May 2021.

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On interaction of domestic and international 

Veronika Fikfak. ‘Protecting Human Rights in Austerity Claims in the UK.’ (2016) 8 Hague Journal on the Rule of Law,  pages 205-226.
 

Jaka Kukavica and Veronika Fikfak. ‘Strasbourg’s U-Turn on Independence as Part of an Effective Investigation under Article 2.’ (2015) 74/3 Cambridge Law Journal, pages 415-419.  
 

Veronika Fikfak. ‘English Courts and the ‘internalisation’ of the European Convention on Human Rights – Between Theory and Practice.’ (2013-2014) 5 The UK Supreme Court Yearbook, pages 183-214.