International Human Rights Law

The growing field of urban law demands a collaborative scholarly focus on comparative and global perspectives. This volume offers diverse insights ...

Global Intersectionality and Contemporary Human Rights argues for an expansive definition of human rights, one that encompasses the harm caused by ...

Deeply researched and scrupulously even-handed, this work provides readers with a clear and accurate understanding of human trafficking and related...

The gender gap with respect to wealth and property is a chasm. For over 40 years, the leading international treaty body on women's rights, the Comm...

This book argues that human dignity and law stand in a privileged relationship with one another. Law must be understood as limited by the demands m...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence This book examines what happens when states and other authorities use detention to abuse ...

This book considers the domestic implementation of ECtHR judgments, and their impact upon national laws, policies and institutions. Since the turn ...

At a time of intense polarisation about the value of human rights, this edited volume brings together leading scholars in international law and int...

This book examines the international, regional and domestic human rights frameworks that establish victim rights as a central force in law and poli...

Like many other areas of life, humanitarian practice and thinking are being transformed by information and communications technology. Despite this,...

Looking at two of the key paradigms of the post-Cold War eranational sovereignty, and human rights this book examines the possibilities for their ...

Educators and students face many questions when exploring the history of the Holocaust. Both the harrowing historical narrative and its wider conte...

This monograph could not be more timely, as discourses relating to refugees access to territory, rescue at sea, push-back, and push-back by proxy d...

In Access to Courts for Asylum Seekers and Refugees, Emma Dunlop focuses on the scope and content of article 16 of the 1951 Refugee Convention. Und...

This book provides the first systematic assessment from a human rights law perspective of the landmark contributions of the renowned legal anthropo...

Economics plays a key role in human rights issues as decision-makers weigh the incentives associated with choosing how to use scarce resources in t...

Children's rights law is a relatively young but rapidly developing discipline. The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, the field's core leg...

The last twenty years have seen an unprecedented rise in the use of secret courts or closed material proceedings largely brought about in response ...

As most jurisdictions move away from the death penalty, some remain strongly committed to it, while others hold on to it but use it sparingly. This...

After the fall of military and communist dictatorships at the end of the 1980s, Latin American and Eastern European countries had to reckon with at...

After the fall of military and communist dictatorships at the end of the 1980s, Latin American and Eastern European countries had to reckon with at...

After the fall of military and communist dictatorships at the end of the 1980s, Latin American and Eastern European countries had to reckon with at...

International Norm Disputes: The Link between Contestation and Norm Robustness offers a rich, comparative study of when and why contested internati...

It has become almost accepted knowledge within international policy circles that efforts against drug trafficking and drug abuse violate human righ...