Green-Lighting Accountability: Transitional Justice and Compliance With Rulings From the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Pearce Edwards, Kelly Morrison, Chesani Askew, Department of Political Science, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Department of Political Science, University of Tennessee, Department of Political Science, Vanderbilt University

Journal of Conflict Resolution

Published online on June 23, 2026

Abstract

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When do democratically-elected leaders comply with rulings from international courts? While international courts have been studied independently, little research examines their interaction with state-level transitional justice (TJ) institutions. We ...