GANTY Sarah, « S.J. v. Belgium : missed opportunity to fairly protect seriously ill migrants facing expulsion », Strasbourg Observers, 30 avril 2015, http://strasbourgobservers.com

Ivana Isailovic analyzes the recent European Court of Human Rights judgment in Y.Y. v. Turkey dealing with trans individuals’ gender recognition on the Strasbourg Observers blog.
http://strasbourgobservers.com/2015/04/24/the-y-y-v-turkey-case-and-trans-individuals-gender-recognition/

GANTY Sarah, « Protection of Seriously Ill Migrants Facing Expulsion : The Shameless Caselaw of the European Court of Human Rights », 15 avril 2015, The Berkeley Journal of International Law Blog, http://berkeleytravaux.com/

This paper examines through the lens of political recognition the US Supreme Court decision in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroelum Co., which upholds the territoriality principle regarding the reach of the Alien Tort Statute (ATS). It seeks to suggest an alternative conception of ATS scope of application and more generally state jurisdiction, which is based on the notion of recognition borrowed from political (...)

In : Revue de la Recherche juridique - Cahiers de Méthodologie du Droit, 29/5, 2015, p. 2171-2188.
Il existe des provinces particulièrement réfractaires au retour aux choses elles-mêmes ; la province « Droit » en constitue un exemple typique 1. La tentative de renouveler l’approche philosophique du droit au XX e siè-cle grâce à la méthode phénoménologique est un constat d’échec signé par la quasi-totalité des théoriciens du droit. Il l’est avec d’autant plus d’assurance que cette tentation est déjà vieille (...)

This paper uses the theoretical framework based on the political notions of recognition and misrecognition in order to analyze the reception of Muslim talaq divorces in French courts. It provides a critical examination of the Cour de cassation’s decision in which the Court ruled that the foreign decision acknowledging talaq divorce is contrary to public policy, and more specifically to the gender equality principle. The paper argues that PIL practices constitute instances of political (...)

GANTY Sarah, “Est-il bien sûr que les Pays d’origine sûrs soient sûrs ?”, Justice en ligne, 2015, http://www.justice-en-ligne.be

Questions concerning effective remedies in refugee status procedures have recently received a lot of attention in Belgium, most notably in two significant high-level cases. The Belgian Constitutional Court found in January 2014 that the fast-track procedure of annulment for asylum seekers from safe countries of origin did not provide for an effective remedy. Only one month later the European Court of Human Rights reached a similar conclusion in the S. J. v. Belgium case, which concerned the (...)

The article concerns the importation by the European Court of Human Rights of numerous and various external documents to help apply and interpret the European Convention on Human Rights and the Protocols thereto. To address this phenomenon, this article starts from and reflects upon a users’ perspective on human rights. Dorothea Staes demonstrates that, depending on the particular judicial motives, tendencies towards both integration and opposition result from references to external (...)

Adopting a ‘user perspective’ might open promising new avenues to human rights research, especially in a context of global legal pluralism that is characterized by a multiplicity of actors. This article evaluates the conceptual value of the approach by confronting it with three forceful objections to the notions of human rights ‘users’ and ‘usage’ as they emerge from the social sciences, in particular from sociology. These include the ‘Arendtian’ argument concerning the problem of the ‘right to (...)