International Human Rights Law

In this moment of unprecedented humanitarian crises, the representations of global disasters are increasingly common media themes around the world....

In 1856, the US Supreme Court denied Dred Scott, now free of slavery, his Constitutional rights, solely because he was black. According to the Cour...

This title was first published in 2002. Gender has become a culturally laden signifier. Sometimes used to differentiate the social from the biologi...

This title was first published in 2003. The series of volumes prepared by UNESCO for teaching human rights at higher education level comes to a con...

The human rights of communities in many resource-rich, weak governance States are adversely affected, not only by the acts of States and their agen...

The European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) has been relatively neglected in the field of normative human rights theory. This book aims to bridg...

This title was first published in 2003. The fulfilment of health care rights in a world where resources are scarce is a prominent issue. In this vo...

In 1962, a 15-year-old Arizona boy named Gerald Gault may or may not have made a lewd phone call to a neighbor. Gerald was arrested, prosecuted, re...

Every successive generation finds fresh reasons for the study of natural law. Current interest in the natural law may well be due to a pervasive mo...

This book was first published in 2003.Justice, Humanity and the New World Order offers a refreshing analysis of current jurisprudential concerns re...

Throughout the 1990s, humanitarian interventionism sat at a crossroads, where ideas about rights and duties within and beyond borders collided with...

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

This book contributes to a feminist understanding of international human rights by examining restrictions on reproductive freedom through the lens ...

Over time there has been a miscommunication between mainstream economics and human rights that has paved the way to a justificatory ideology that v...

This volume presents an analysis of controversial events and issues shaping a rapidly changing international legal, political, and social landscape...

This innovative multidisciplinary collection brings together the latest research on human rights issues in the Asian region, by leading scholars wi...

This title was first published in 2003. The Logic of Equality proposes a formal-logical method for examining the indeterminacy of legal discourse, ...

Requirements for the defendant to actively participate in the English criminal process have been increasing in recent years such that the defendant...

Around the world there are a myriad of NGOs using human rights education (HRE) as a tool of community empowerment with the firm belief that it will...

This book was originally published in 1998. Protection of Human Rights both at a regional and at an international level is now a major pre-occupati...

Climate Change already having serious impacts on the lives of millions of people across the world. These impacts are not only ecological, but also ...

This book sails in uncharted waters. It takes a human rights-based approach to tax havens, and is a detailed analysis of structures and the laws th...

This book assesses the impact of post-9/11 domestic counterterrorism policy on US political life. It examines political discourse, law, institution...

Among the examples of civil wars, armed secessionist movements and minority uprisings in the world today, many involve conflict between a minority ...

The accountability of armed non-state actors is a neglected field of international law, overtaken by the regimes of state responsibility and indivi...

This title was first published in 2000: An investigation of how the claims of minority groups for greater political power through 'autonomy' and 's...

This title was first published in 2003. Theories of human rights are important, as they can be a means to challenging entrenched and oppressive pow...

This title was first published in 2003. The series of volumes prepared by UNESCO for teaching human rights at higher education level comes to a con...

This book demonstrates the empirical gains and integrative potentials of social systems theory for the sociology of law. Against a backdrop of clas...

This book examines the concept of witness protection which is still at an early developmental stage in several African countries including Nigeria,...

This book uses a practice-driven and empirically founded approach to address the question of whether and how international attention can protect an...

This book analyzes how over the last two decades, immigration regimes in three primary refugee-receiving states in the Global North Canada, Austra...

This book examines the evolution of the contemporary crime victims procedural place within modern Western societies. Taking the history of the Iris...

This book offers an in-depth analysis of a fundamental human freedom and a cornerstone of democracy: the Freedom of Religions or Beliefs (FoRB). Th...

The dominant approach to economic policy has so far failed to adequately address the pressing challenges the world faces today: extreme poverty, wi...

The Handbook of International Humanitarian Law sets out a Black Letter text of international humanitarian law accompanied by case analysis and exte...