Preparation:

• Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Procedure for complaints by individuals under the human rights treaties
• European Court of Human Rights, Practical Guide on Admissibility Criteria, read pp. 15-21 (non-exhaustion of domestic remedies), skim overall document for overview of other admissibility criteria
• Al Adsani v United Kingdom, European Court of Human Rights, 2001.
• Bouzari v Islamic Republic of Iran, Ontario Court of Appeal, 2004.
• Yassin c. Green Park International Inc., 2010 QCCA 1455.
• Scott Davidson, Remedies for Violations of the American Convention on Human Rights, 44 Int’l & Comp. L. Q. 405 – 414 (1995).

Further readings:

• ICJ, Jurisdictional Immunities of the State (Germany v. Italy: Greece intervening), Judgment 3 Feb 2012
• K. Boyle and H. Hannum, “Individual Applications under the European Convention on Human Rights and the Concept of Administrative Practice: The Donnelly Case,” Am. J. Int’l L. 68 (1974): 440-453.
• Terry Collingsworth, The Key Human Rights Challenge: Developing Enforcement Mechanisms, 15 Harvard Human Rights Journal 183 (2002) (22 pages)

On the exhaustion of local remedies:

• A. A. Cancado Trindade, “Exhaustion of Local Remedies under the UN Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Its Optional Protocol,” The International and Comparative Law Quarterly 28, no. 4 (October 1979): 734-765
• Bernard Robertson, “Exhaustion of Local Remedies in International Human Rights Litigation? The Burden of Proof Reconsidered,” International & Comparative Law Quarterly 39, no. 01 (1990): 191-196
• Nsongurua J. Udombana, So Far, So Fair: The Local Remedies Rule in the Jurisprudence of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, 97 Am. J. Int’l L. 1 (2003)

On immunities:

• ICJ, Jurisdictional Immunities of the State (Germany v. Italy: Greece intervening) – Judgment of 3 February 2012
• Alebeek, Rosanne van. The immunity of states and their officials in international criminal law and international human rights law, ed (Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008)
• D. J. Bederman, “Dead Man’s Hand: Reshuffling Foreign Sovereign Immunities in US Human Rights Litigation” (1995) 25 Ga. J. Int’l & Comp. L. 255
• Stephens, Beth & Michael Ratner. International human rights litigation in U.S. courts, ed (Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Transnational Publishers, 1996)
• L. M. Caplan, “State Immunity, Human Rights, and Jus Cogens: A Critique of the Normative Hierarchy Theory” (2003) 97:4 American Journal of International Law 741-781
• N. Roht-Arriaza, “The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and Human Rights Violations: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back” (1998) 16 Berkeley Journal of International Law 71

On remedies:

• J. M. Pasqualucci, “Victim Reparations in the Inter-American Human Rights System: A Critical Assessment of Current Practice and Procedure,” Mich. J. Int’l L. 18 (1996): 1-58
• Shelton, Dinah. Remedies in international human rights law, ed (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005)
• Christian Tomuschat, “Reparation for Victims of Grave Human Rights Violations,” Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law 10 (2002): 157-184