International Human Rights Law

This book provides a timely critical overview of both the health and trajectory of international criminal law's continuing evolution. It represents...

She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power 1619 to 1969 proves that The Black Woman liberated herself. Readers go on a journey from the inv...

The orthodox view is that rights complement democracy. This book critically examines this view in the context of EU fundamental rights, specificall...

This book surveys secondary literature on the biggest questions that have animated the field of Islamic law since its beginnings. It offers scholar...

Over the past sixty years the regional human rights systems have surpassed the UN human rights bodies in affording protection to the victims of hum...

Today human rights represent a primary concern of the international legal system. The international communitys commitment to the protection and pro...

This title was first published in 2001. The case of Lawless v Ireland is a landmark in the development of human rights jurisprudence. Stemming from...

This book will consider a rapidly emerging guiding general principle in international relations and, arguably, in international law: the Responsibi...

This volume examines the range of Non-Trade Concerns (NTCs) that may conflict with international economic rules and proposes ways to protect them w...

This title was first published in 2003. The authors of the essays in this collection, all internationally recognised refugee scholars and practitio...

Regional Autonomy, Cultural Diversity and Differentiated Territorial Government assesses the current state of the international theory and practice...

This collection explores and illustrates issues arising from political approaches to human rights in contrast to the more traditional moral approac...

The capacity to abuse, or in general affect the enjoyment of human, labour and environmental rights has risen with the increased social and economi...

Health rights litigation is still an emerging phenomenon in Africa, despite the constitutions of many African countries having provisions to advanc...

It is generally accepted in legal and bioethical discourse that the patient has a right to self-determination. In practice though, this is often no...

This book examines the relationship between intellectual property in pharmaceuticals and access to medicines from a human rights perspective, with ...

This book explores the human rights consequences of recent and ongoing revisions of mental health legislation in England and Ireland. Presenting a ...

This book develops an analysis of the historical, political and legal contexts behind current demands by NGOs and the United Nations Human Rights C...

How does the use of military drones affect the legal, political, and moral responsibility of different actors involved in their deployment and desi...

Through a multidisciplinary approach, African Frontiers counters the superficial, Eurocentric and gender insensitive dominant discursive representa...

This groundbreaking monograph asserts the need for the establishment of an exclusionary rule of evidence in China as a means of protecting the peop...

This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from the United States, the Middle East, and North Africa, to discuss and critic...

The book profiles some of the macro and micro factors that have impact on European religious literacy. It seeks to understand religious illiteracy ...

On the 10th of October 2002 the International Court of Justice delivered the Bakassi decision, which, amongst other things, excised the resource ri...

In recent years, a conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court, over vigorous dissents, has developed circumventions to the Establishment Claus...

Human rights and peace issues and concerns have come about at a critical time. The world has recently witnessed a plethora of turning points that s...

This volume provides up-to-date and nuanced analysis across a wide spectrum of capital punishment issues. The essays move beyond the conventional l...

In the past few years, constitutional courts have been presented with new challenges. The world financial crisis, the new wave of terrorism, mass m...

This volume shows how and why legal empowerment is important for those exercising their religious rights under various jurisdictions, in conditions...

This book brings legal and academic perspective to the theory and practice surrounding the right to a fair hearing within a reasonable time. This f...

While the 21st century bears witness to several conflicts leading to mass displacement, the conflict in Syria has crystallised the need for a solid...

Linking critical legal thinking to constitutional scholarship and a practical tradition of US lawyering that is orientated around anti-poverty acti...

The essays selected for this volume develop conventional abolition discourse and explore the conceptual framework through which abolition is unders...

The volume presents an extensive investigation into the process of reforms of detention powers in todays China and offers an in-depth analysis of t...

This volume presents a timely analysis of some of the current controversies relating to freedom for religion and freedom from religion that have do...

Peaceful legal and political changing of the guards is taken for granted in developed democracies, but is not evident everywhere. As a relatively n...