International Human Rights Law

The traditionally top-down focus in human rights scholarship on laws, institutions, and courts has begun to turn towards a bottom-up focus on activ...

This edited collection investigates where the European Convention on Human Rights as a living instrument stands on migration and the rights of migr...

More than 600 women and girls have been murdered and more than 1,000 have disappeared in the Mexican state of Chihuahua since 1993. Violence agains...

This publication explores human rights in the context of constitution making. It notes the important role of participatory processes which should b...

Cultural Expertise, Law, and Rights introduces readers to the theory and practice of cultural expertise in the resolution of conflicts and the clai...

This book showcases rights based participatory approaches to policy-making, practice and research with children and youth.Throughout its three part...

Latin America has a long tradition of constitutional reform. Since the democratic transitions of the 1980s, most countries have amended their const...

The klieg-lighted Tokyo Trial began on May 3, 1946, and ended on November 4, 1948, a majority of the eleven judges from the victorious Allies findi...

Through war crimes prosecutions, truth commissions, purges of perpetrators, reparations, and memorials, transitional justice practices work under t...

One of the most comprehensive examinations of US torture policy, from the Cold War to the War on Terror to the debate over accountability Waterboar...

The laws of war are facing new challenges from emerging technologies and changing methods of warfare, as well as the growth of human rights and int...

The Principles relating to the Status of National Institutions (the Paris Principles) were adopted by National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) an...

Interrogating the concepts of allegiance and identity in a globalised world involves renewing our understanding of membership and participation wit...

Why is there such a large gap between the declarations that countries make about human rights and their imperfect implementation of them? Why do st...

The world faces more than 60 million people displaced by armed conflict and disasters as of 2022. Climate change is set to trigger large-scale disp...

Combatants are equal under the laws of armed conflict, regardless of whether the wars they fight are just or unjust, legal or illegal. They are per...

How to address the human rights violations of previous regimes and past periods of conflict is one of the most pressing questions facing government...

From Conflict to Modern Slavery considers the lives of people after they have fled conflict and arrived in the UK. The book draws on insights from ...

This edited volume brings together well-established and emerging scholars of transitional justice to discuss the persistence of amnesty in the age ...

In A Global Political Morality, Michael J. Perry addresses several related questions in human rights theory, political theory and constitutional th...

Despite the conclusion of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg that aggression is the 'supreme international crime', armed conflict rem...

Bruno Tesch was tried and executed for his company's Zyklon B gas used in Nazi Germany's extermination camps. This book examines this trial and the...

This innovative book sets itself at the crossroads of several rapidly developing areas of research in legal and global studies related to social co...