International Human Rights Law

This collection presents a unique and diverse range of contributions on challenges faced by criminal justice in England and Wales in the wake of th...

This book examines the role of disability in the right to political and social participation, an act of citizenship that many disabled people do no...

This book aims to prospectively conjecture about what the coming decades may hold for human rights. The authors in this volume discern where curren...

What is the state of current European governance on new and emerging technologies, and where is it going? What is, and what can be, the role of hum...

This book investigates the role of Islam and religious freedom in the constitutional transitions of six North African and Middle Eastern countries,...

Amnesty, Serious Crimes and International Law examines the permissibility of amnesties for serious crimes in the contemporary international order. ...

The Internets importance for freedom of expression and other rights comes in part from the ability it bestows on users to create and share informat...

The right to self-determination has played a crucial role in the process of assisting oppressed people to put an end to colonial domination. Outsid...

Memories of violence, suffering and atrocities in Cambodia are today being pulled in different directions. A range of transitional justice practice...

While the visibility of disability studies has increased in recent years, few have thoroughly examined the marginalization of people with disabilit...

Within an international context in which the right to silence has long been regarded as sacrosanct, this book provides the first comprehensive, emp...

This book aims to augment the Ashgate series by taking stock of the current state of migration law literature. It also aims to sketch out the conto...

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...