Human Rights and International Law
About the Book Series
This series explores human right law's place within the international legal order, offering much-needed interdisciplinary and global perspectives on human rights' increasingly central role in the development and implementation of international law and policy.
Human Rights and International Law is committed to providing critical and contextual accounts of human rights' relationship with international law theory and practice. To achieve this, volumes in the series will focus on major debates in the field, looking at how human rights impacts on areas as diverse and divisive as security, terrorism, climate change, refugee law, migration, bioethics, natural resources and international trade.
Exploring the interaction, interrelationship and potential conflicts between human rights and other branches of international law, books in the series will address both historical development and contemporary contexts, before outlining the most urgent questions facing scholars and policy makers today.
International Protection of Socio-Economic Rights: An Interactional Approach
1st Edition
By Aristi Volou
November 28, 2025
This book argues that there are weaknesses in the international systems of socio-economic rights protection and that these weaknesses can be mitigated or overcome through the practice of interaction between these systems. The work examines international protection of socio-economic rights and shows...
The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights: Prevention, Mitigation, Remedies and Redress
1st Edition
By Robin Ramcharan
March 31, 2025
This book systematically documents the practice of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) on the protection of human rights. It provides a template of universal standards, spanning prevention, response and mitigation, and redress and remedies, from which to gauge the ...
Human Rights and Environmental Sustainability in State-Owned Enterprises
1st Edition
Edited
By Judith Schönsteiner, Markus Krajewski
September 02, 2024
This book presents case studies on the human rights performance of state-owned enterprises from four Latin American and three European countries, as well as foreign investments by Chinese state-owned enterprises on these continents. State-owned enterprises are considered among some of the worst ...
The Incoherence of Human Rights in International Law: Absence, Emergence and Limitations
1st Edition
Edited
By Louisa Ashley, Nicolette Butler
September 02, 2024
Incoherence is a term that is all too often associated with the public international law regime. To a great extent, its incoherence is arguably a natural consequence of the fragmented nature of both the development and overall scope of the discipline. Despite significant achievements since the ...
Participation and Democratic Innovation under International Human Rights Law
1st Edition
By Nicholas McMurry
August 26, 2024
This book explores the human rights principle of participation and the human right to participation. The work presents an argument that international human rights law imposes obligations to enable participation, and demonstrates that it has been interpreted in this way by authoritative bodies. ...
The Presumption of Innocence in International Human Rights and Criminal Law
1st Edition
By Michelle Coleman
September 26, 2022
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the presumption of innocence from both a practical and theoretical point of view. Throughout the book a framework for the presumption of innocence is developed. The book approaches the right to presumption of innocence from an international human ...
Human Rights, Religion and International Law
1st Edition
By Kerry O'Halloran
June 30, 2020
In this book Kerry O’Halloran analyses a subject of international interest – religion – and examines related contemporary issues from a human rights perspective. The book takes the view that while the impact of Islamic State violence has dramatically demonstrated the destructive power of religious ...
The Effectiveness of the UN Human Rights System: Reform and the Judicialisation of Human Rights
1st Edition
By Surya Subedi, OBE, QC (Hon)
April 16, 2019
The UN human rights agenda has reached the mature age of 70 years and many UN mechanisms created to implement this agenda are themselves in their middle-age, yet human rights violations are still a daily occurrence around the globe. The scorecard of the UN human rights mechanisms appears impressive...
Extracting Accountability from Non-State Actors in International Law: Assessing the Scope for Direct Regulation
1st Edition
By Lee James McConnell
October 18, 2018
The human rights of communities in many resource-rich, weak governance States are adversely affected, not only by the acts of States and their agents, but also by powerful non-State actors. Contemporary phenomena such as globalisation, privatisation and the proliferation of internal armed conflict ...
The Emerging Law of Forced Displacement in Africa: Development and implementation of the Kampala Convention on internal displacement
1st Edition
By Allehone M. Abebe
June 08, 2018
As of the end of 2015, there were 40.8 civilians who had been internally displaced by conflicts and effects of natural disasters in various parts of the world. Internally displaced persons (IDPs) are currently the largest group of persons receiving assistance from some of the main international ...
Business and Human Rights: History, Law and Policy - Bridging the Accountability Gap
1st Edition
By Nadia Bernaz
October 10, 2016
Business corporations can and do violate human rights all over the world, and they are often not held to account. Emblematic cases and situations such as the state of the Niger Delta and the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory are examples of corporate human rights abuses which are not adequately ...