International legal rulings require sustained advocacy to translate into domestic legislation

Evidence

Third: the gap between judgment and remedy — the four-year period between the 1982 judgment and the 1986 Act — is instructive about the relationship between international judicial decisions and domestic legislative change. The judgment established the violation. The legislative change did not happen automatically. It happened because the UK Parliament acted, under sustained pressure from advocates who used the judgment as leverage. The legal ruling created the obligation. The advocacy converted the obligation into action. — , The Rod and the Child, 9245

Categorization

• SEED: A transferable case study for how human-rights judgments become law — usable in writing about litigation-to-legislation pipelines.
• XREF: connects to: International human rights rulings alone cannot force compliance without sustained monitoring and pressure — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 11171; Governments respond more to formal legal analysis than to public campaigns — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 8917

Broader Connections

• International human rights rulings alone cannot force compliance without sustained monitoring and pressure #corroborates (0.85) — , The Rod and the Child, 11171
• Governments respond more to formal legal analysis than to public campaigns #contradicts (0.55) — , The Rod and the Child, 8917