The use of compliance studies to evaluate the effectiveness of international human rights courts can produce misleading results because a focus on compliance considers the behaviour of only one stakeholder in the dynamic that is human rights adjudication: the state. A survey of petitioners in cases before the IACtHR, together with a review of literature surrounding strategic litigation before the Inter-American system, demonstrate how civil society organisations value the declarative justice provided by the Court, how they mobilise around human rights litigation and how adept they are at deploying rulings in such a way as to produce impact beyond compliance and even in the absence of any compliance at all.

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判断美洲人权：遵守美洲人权法院的谜语

使用合规研究来评估国际人权法院的有效性可能会产生误导性结果，因为对合规的关注只考虑人权裁决动态中一个利益相关者的行为：国家。对 IACtHR 案件中的请愿人进行的调查，以及对美洲系统之前的战略诉讼文献的回顾，展示了民间社会组织如何重视法院提供的宣示性正义，他们如何围绕人权诉讼进行动员以及如何熟练他们正在以这样一种方式部署裁决，以产生超越合规甚至根本不合规的影响。