International Human Rights Law

Racial justice is never far from the headlines. The Windrush scandal, the toppling of the statue of Edward Colston, and racism within the police ha...

The call for establishing a right to bank holds valid premises, yet this right has never been contemplated before. The book argues that introducing...

This handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of the current and emerging research and policy on disability law....

This book asks the fundamental question of how new human rights issues emerge in the human rights debate. To answer this, the book focuses on nongo...

Peoples Tribunals are independent, peaceful, grassroots movements, created by members of civil society, to address impunity that is associated with...

This collection reviews developments in DNA profiling across jurisdictions with a focus on scientific and technological developments as well as the...

This book offers an up-to-date, comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis of the multifaceted and evolving experiences of human rights in Sierra Leo...

This book examines the right to conscientious objection in international human rights law. It begins with an exploration of the concept of conscien...

An American Dilemma examines the issue of capital punishment in the United States as it conflicts with the nation's obligations under the 1963 Vien...

This book discusses to what extent and how constitutional design and practice in Latin America have helped in combatting the subordination of women...

The first of its kind, this comprehensive interdisciplinary textbook in Business and Human Rights (BHR) connects and integrates themes, discussions...

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 ...

The American Convention on Human Rights: A Commentary is the first comprehensive and systematic article-by-article commentary of the American Conve...

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...

Women were historically treated in wartime as property. Yet in the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, prohibitions against pillaging property did ...

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 ...

The law is a well-known tool in fighting gender inequality, but which laws actually advance womens rights? This book unpacks the complex nuances be...

This book discusses to what extent and how constitutional design and practice in Latin America have helped in combatting the subordination of women...

Die europäischen Wirtschaftsgrundrechte wurden stark fortentwickelt, indem der EuGH die immer wieder beklagte grobmaschige Prüfungsdichte deutlich ...

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...

This book offers a new perspective on the death penalty in the US, examining capital punishment as state crime or state-produced harm. It addresses...

This book offers a new perspective on the death penalty in the US, examining capital punishment as state crime or state-produced harm. It addresses...

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...

The books aims to discuss and present an alternative epistemology of human rights, against the background of the globalization from below. The inte...

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 addresses the rights of indigenous peoples to marine space and associated marine resources under international law.Examining the rights o...