“The future of international law is domestic” – domestic courts are considered to play a crucial role in international law. In a legal system lacking centralized law-making and enforcing mechanisms, great hope is being placed on these actors in applying and enforcing the law. Even though international human rights law, with well-established institutions such as the European and the Inter-American human rights courts, is institutionalized to a greater extent than other international legal areas, domestic courts also play a major role here.