International Human Rights Law

2012 American Bar Association Gavel Award Honorable Mention for Books 2012 Scribes Book Silver Medal Award presented by the American Society of Le...

In 1856, the US Supreme Court denied Dred Scott, now free of slavery, his Constitutional rights, solely because he was black. According to the Cour...

The approximately two million gay and lesbian elders in the United States are an underserved and understudied population. At a time when gay men an...

How federalism can be used to provide recognition and accommodate ethnic groups is an important topic, not only in Africa, but in multi-ethnic comm...

The essays selected for this volume provide a comprehensive overview of the philosophical, ethical, historical, legal and practical issues in the d...

The main challenges within international human rights law are generally thought to be in the fields of transitional justice, non-state actors, terr...

When does the exercise of an interest constitute a human right? The contributors to Menuges edited collection offer a range of secular and religio...

The important and groundbreaking volume, The Professional Identity of the Human Rights Field Officer, completes the study of human rights field wor...

This volume offers snapshots of how rights are debated and employed in public discourse to reshape legal and political relations at the beginning o...

Through mapping the rights discourse and the transformations in transnational finance capitalism since the world wars, and interrogating the connec...

An updated and expanded edition of the widely used overview of international human rights law for students, practitioners, and professors. Provides...

Climate change and other forms of environmental degradation, such as earthquakes and soil erosion, in combination with other factors (such as pover...

In this book the author gives his views on the workings of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), where he served as a judge for 18 years. The ...

The volume New Politics of Decisionism aims to add a new dimension to the literature of populism. It deals with what Carl Schmitt famously coined a...

The aim of this book is to provide the reader with overviews of certain international law issues which recently have been and continue to be centra...

Longer than life was awarded the Modderman Prize 2022.The ICTY closed its doors in 2017. It had been set up in 1993 in order to prosecute crimes co...

In pluralist societies, corporate religious freedom might confl ict with other fundamental rights. Corporate piety might collide with LGBT rights, ...

This book brings together contributions from emerging African and internationally recognized scholars in the field of international human rights la...

From 2015 to 2017, thousands of migrants fleeing war and poverty arrived on the shores of the Greek island of Lesbos. Now known as the refugee cris...

This book provides a detailed analysis of the law and practice of international criminal justice in atrocity situations within Africa. Using the fr...

In the 1990s, the promise of justice for atrocity crimes was associated with the revival of international criminal tribunals (ICTs). More recently,...

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The scope of Artificial Intelligence's (AI) hold on modern life is only just beginning to be fully understood. Academics, professionals, policymake...

Documents Annex: http://www.nyupress.org/justtradeannex/index.html It is generally assumed that pro-trade laws are not good for human rights, and l...