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| Tables of Cases | |
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| Table of International Treaties, Conventions, and Instruments | |
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| Table of Statutes of International Courts | |
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| Table of National Legislation | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Historical Recovery of the Human Person as Subject of the Law of Nations | |
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| Introduction: The Legacy of the Individual's Subjectivity in the Emerging Law of Nations | |
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| The Individual's Presence and Participation in the International Legal Order | |
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| The Rescue of the Individual as a Subject of International Law | |
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| Personality and Capacity: the Individual's Access to Justice at International Level | |
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| Concluding Observations: The Historical Significance of the International Subjectivity of the Individual | |
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| The Exercise of the Right of Access to International Justice: The Right of International Individual Petition | |
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| Evolution and Juridical Nature of the Right of Individual Petition | |
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| Consolidation and Scope of the Right of Individual Petition | |
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| The Titularity of the Right of Individual Petition: Distinct Formulations | |
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| The Significance and Overriding Importance of the Right of Individual Petition | |
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| The Right of Direct Access of Individuals to International Human Rights Tribunals | |
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| Developments in the European System of Protection | |
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| Developments in the Inter-American System of Protection | |
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| Developments in the African System of Protection | |
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| Concluding Observations | |
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| Access to Justice at International Level and the Right to an Effective Domestic Remedy | |
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| Access to International Justice and Admissibility of Petitions | |
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| The Right to an Effective Domestic Remedy as a Basic Pillar of the Rule of Law in a Democratic Society | |
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| The Intangibility of Judicial Guarantees in All Circumstances | |
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| The Right to Recognition of Juridical Personality | |
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| The Converging Case-Law of the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights on the Rights of Access to Justice and to a Fair Trial | |
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| The Interrelation between the Access to Justice (Right to an Effective Remedy) and the Guarantees of the Due Process of Law | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Interrelation between the Access to Justice (Right to an Effective Remedy) and the Guarantees of the Due Process of Law in the Case-Law of the IACtHR | |
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| The Overcoming of Vicissitudes as to the Right to an Effective Remedy in the Jurisprudential Construction of the ECtHR | |
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| The Right of Access to Justice Lato Sensu | |
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| Concluding Observations | |
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| Access to International Justice in Relation to the Interaction between International Law and Domestic Law | |
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| Access to International Justice of Victims of Human Rights Violations: General Considerations | |
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| The Interaction between International Law and Domestic Law in Human Rights Protection | |
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| The Needed Revision or Control of Reservations to Human Rights Treaties | |
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| The Interaction between International Law and Domestic Law and the Rule of Exhaustion of the Local Remedies | |
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| Human Rights Treaties and the Role of National Courts | |
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| The State's Duty to Provide Effective Local Remedies and the Individual's Duty to Have Recourse to Them: The Emphasis on Redress or the Realization of Justice | |
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| The Rationale of the Local Remedies Rule in Human Rights Protection | |
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| The Principle of Complementarity in International Criminal Law | |
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| Beyond Subsidiarity: State Responsibility, Substantive Law, and the Interaction between International Law and Domestic Law in the Present Domain of Protection | |
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| Access to Justice: The Safeguard and Preservation of the Integrity of International Jurisdiction | |
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| The Intangibility of International Jurisdiction | |
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| The Position of International Human Rights Tribunals | |
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| Developments in the European Human Rights System | |
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| Developments in the Inter-American Human Rights System | |
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| General Assessment | |
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| Direct Access of Individuals in Provisional Measures of Protection | |
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| Access to Justice: The Realization of the Right to Justice | |
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| The Prevalence of the Guarantees of the Due Process of Law | |
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| Concluding Observations | |
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| New Developments in the Notion of 'Potential Victim': The Preventive Dimension of Protection | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Origins and Development of the Notion of Victim | |
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| The Continuing Evolution of the Notion of 'Potential Victim' | |
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| New Developments of the Notion of 'Potential Victim' | |
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| Autonomous Configuration of the Notion of Victim in its Preventive Dimension | |
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| Condition of Victim and Legitimatio ad Causam: A Precision | |
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| Concluding Observations | |
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| The Protection of Victims in Situations of Great Adversity or Defencelessness - I | |
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| Introduction: International Protection of Victims in Distress | |
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| The Drama of Uprootedness and the Growing Need of Protection of Migrants | |
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| The Protection of Migrants in International Case-Law | |
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| European Human Rights System | |
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| Inter-American Human Rights System | |
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| The Advisory Opinion on the Right to Information on Consular Assistance in the Framework of the Guarantees of the Due Process of Law (1999) | |
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| The Advisory Opinion on the Juridical Condition and Rights of Undocumented Migrants (2003) | |
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| Concluding Observations | |
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| The Protection of Victims in Situations of Great Adversity or Defencelessness - II | |
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| Introduction: The Centrality of the Suffering of the Victims | |
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| The Protection of Abandoned or 'Street Children' | |
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| The Protection of Members of Peace Communities and Other Civilians in Situations of Armed Conflict | |
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| The Protection of Internally Displaced Persons | |
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| The Protection of Persons under Sub-human Conditions of Detention | |
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| Concluding Observations: The Prevalence of Human Rights of Persons in Situations of Vulnerability | |
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| Access to Justice of Victims of Massacres and Crimes of State | |
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| Massacres and Crimes of State: Introductory Observations | |
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| Victims of Massacres | |
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| The Determination of the Aggravated Responsibility of the State | |
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| The Determination of the Condition of Victim | |
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| Identified and Identifiable Victims: Identification of Victims at Distinct Stages of the Procedure | |
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| Classification or Categorization of Victims | |
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| Centrality and Expansion of the Notion of Direct Victim | |
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| The Victims' Right to Redress | |
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| Concluding Observations | |
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| The Overcoming of Obstacles to Direct Access to Justice | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Proper Role of International Human Rights Tribunals | |
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| Towards the End of Self-Amnesties | |
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| The Right to the Law (droit au Droitl Derecho al Derecho) as an Imperative of Jus Cogens | |
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| The Expansion of the Material Content of Jus Cogens | |
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| The Evolving Presence of Victims in International Criminal Jurisdictions | |
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| Concluding Observations: The Protection of the Human Person in the Light of Considerations of International Ordre Public | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Select Bibliography | |
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| Books | |
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| Courses, Collections, Contributions to Books | |
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| Monographs and Reports | |
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| Articles | |
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| Index | |