International Human Rights Law

In this book, Stone Sweet and Ryan provide an accessible introduction to Kantian constitutional theory and the law and politics of European rights ...

This Commentary provides an article-by-article summary of the TEU, the TFEU, and the Charter of Fundamental Rights, offering a quick reference to t...

This treatise is a detailed article-by-article examination of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Each...

The European Court of Human Rights, by Angelika Nussberger is the first title in a new series, The Elements of International Law. Providing a fresh...

Doctrine, Practice and Advocacy in the Inter-American Human Rights System is the first casebook to focus on the Inter-American human rights system,...

The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) is the principle regional human rights treaty for the African continent. Adopted in 1981, ...

How big a problem is torture? Are the right things being done to prevent it? Why does the UN appear at times to be so impotent in the face of it? I...

Issues of the war that have provoked public controversy and legal debate over the last two years--the Cambodian invasion of May-June 1970, the disc...

Should international law be concerned with offence to religions and their followers? Even before the 2005 publication of the Danish Mohammed cartoo...

While almost everyone has heard of human rights, few will have reflected in depth on what human rights are, where they originate from and what they...

The United Nations estimates that four billion people worldwide live outside the protection of the law. These people can be driven from their land,...

When the oral history of a medicinal plant as a genetic resource is used to develop a blockbuster drug, how is the contribution of indigenous peopl...

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was the first and most celebrated of a wave of international criminal tribunal...

The rights of victims to truth, justice, reparations and guarantees of non-repetition when businesses are involved in past and present abuses are s...

The families of the disappeared have long struggled to uncover the truth about their missing relatives. In so doing, their mobilization has shaped ...

A great deal of contemporary law has a direct connection to the Holocaust. That connection, however, is seldom acknowledged in legal texts and has ...