Human Rights
Unravelling Sovereignty - Human rights actors and the structure of international lawThis book questions the continued relevance of sovereignty to determine the nature of legal personality, the capacity to create international law, and the location of authority ove...
Transitional Justice from Below - Grassroots Activism and the Struggle for ChangeAlthough relatively new as a distinct field of study, transitional justice has become rapidly established as a vital field of enquiry. From vaguely exotic origins on the outer edges o...
Towards a Universal Law for Humanity - Global Values and the Lessons and Challenges from National Constitutional JurisprudenceThe world appears to be globalising economically, technologically and even, to a halting extent, politically. This process of globalisatio...
The UN Childrens Rights Convention: Theory Meets Practice contains a selection of papers presented at the International Interdisciplinary Conference on Childrens Rights, which took place on 1819 May 2006 in Ghent, Belgium and was organised by a Belgian interuniversity resea...
The Tension Between Group Rights and Human Rights - A Multidisciplinary ApproachThe discussion of group rights, while always a part of the human rights discourse, has been gaining importance in the past decade. This discussion, which remains fundamental to a full ...
The Role of National Human Rights Institutions at the International and Regional Levels - The Experience of AfricaNational Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs), defined by the UN as bodies established to promote and protect human rights, have increased in number sinc...
The Right to Development and International Economic Law - Legal and Moral DimensionsIn 1986, the UN declared the right to development to be an inalienable human right, entitling everyone to 'participate in, contribute to, and enjoy economic, social, cultural a...
The Reach of Human Rights in a Globalizing World - Extraterritorial Application of Human Rights TreatiesIn the globalizing world of today, the conduct of states often affects the human rights of persons situated outside of those states' territories. The proble...
The New Law of Peaceful Protest - Rights and Regulation in the Human Rights Act EraThe right to demonstrate is considered fundamental to any democratic system of government, yet in recent years it has received little academic attention. However, events following t...
The Netherlands and the Development of International Human Rights InstrumentsWhen discussing the Netherlands international human rights policies, the first aspects to come to mind are usually those related to how it addresses and reacts to concrete human rights vi...
The Law of Personal PrivacyThe laws protecting personal privacy in England and Wales have evolved over many years, and until quite recently were derived from diverse sources, including the law of confidence, copyright, trespass, the European Convention on Hu...
The Law Against War - The Prohibition on the Use of Force in Contemporary International LawThis new book presents an examination of the non-use of force in contemporary international law. Some authors, especially in recent years, have claimed that this field is un...
The Humanitarian Face of the International Court of Justice represents the first effort in assessing the role and contribution of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in interpreting and developing rules and principles of international human rights and humanitarian law....
The Human Rights Impact of the World Trade Organisation examines the impact of international trade rules on the promotion and protection of human rights, and explains why human rights are an important mechanism for assessing the social justice impact of the international tr...
The Future of Human Rights Impact Assessments of Trade AgreementsIn an age of globalization, free trade should be synonymous with prosperity for all. Yet too often small farmers, indigenous peoples, people with HIV and others are left out of the picture. The Futur...
The Development of Human Rights Law by the Judges of the International Court of JusticeThe jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice generally demonstrates that no rule of international law can be interpreted and applied without regard to its innate valu...
The Advancement of International LawAny talk of the advancement of international law presupposes that two objections are met. The first is the 'realist' objection which, observing the state of international relations today, claims that when it comes down t...
Terrorism and the Limitation of Rights. The ECHR and the US ConstitutionTaking as a starting point the widely accepted view that states confronted with terrorism must find a proper equilibrium between their respective obligations of preserving fundamental rights a...
Social Security Cases in Europe: The European Court of Human RightsWhat aspects of social security are covered by the European Convention on Human Rights? What obligations does a State have in the field of social security to safeguard the rights guaranteed in the ...
Shared Pedagogical ResponsibilityHuman rights tend to focus on the relationship between individual and state: the individual is rights-holder, the state is duty-holder. Children's rights bring a third player much more in the picture, namely parents. Although l...
Rethinking Rights-Based Mental Health LawsMental health laws exist in many countries to regulate the involuntary detention and treatment of individuals with serious mental illnesses. 'Rights-based legalism' is a term used to describe mental health laws tha...
Repairing the Past? - International Perspectives on Reparations for Gross Human Rights AbusesHuman history is replete with examples of widespread and gross violations of human rights, which continue to be perpetrated in the present day. Sadly, however, only a tiny...
Religious Freedom, Religious Discrimination and the Workplace considers the extent to which religious interests are protected in the workplace, with particular reference to the protection against religious discrimination provided by the Employment Equality (Religion and Bel...
Reflections on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous PeoplesThe adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the United Nations General Assembly on 13 September 2007 was acclaimed as a major success for the United Nations system ...
Public Law after the Human Rights ActIt is remarkable that 10 years after the Human Rights Act came into effect, and with further reform possible, there are still no clear answers to basic questions about the relationship between the Human Rights Act, human rights...
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