Some doctrinal works participate so significantly in the understanding of legal phenomena that they become unmissable. Others become essential on account of the reflection they develop or due to the originality of their approach and thought. The work reviewed here belongs to those two categories, both because the information it contains on the regional courts of human rights is precise, complete and invaluable, and because the approach which underlies it is fundamental and belongs to a necessary movement of renewal of the theory of international law in general and of international human rights law in particular…