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.
The Rights of Children and Youth in the Climate Crisis: Action and Litigation
1st Edition
By Aoife Daly, Florencia Paz Landeira, Liesl Muller
April 15, 2026
The climate crisis is a human rights crisis as health, homes, education and numerous other areas of human life are affected. In this work, the authors examine how the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child applies to the climate crisis, and argues that children and youth are rights-makers, ...
International Protection of Socio-Economic Rights: An Interactional Approach
1st Edition
By Aristi Volou
December 29, 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 the international protection of socio-economic rights and ...
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 ...
Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and International Human Rights Law: Common Law Perspectives
1st Edition
By Kerry O'Halloran
June 30, 2021
This book identifies, analyses and discusses the nexus of legal issues that have emerged in recent years around sexuality and gender. It audits these against specific human rights requirements and evaluates the outcomes as evidenced in the legislation and caselaw of six leading common law ...
The Right to The Truth in International Law: Victims’ Rights in Human Rights and International Criminal Law
1st Edition
By Melanie Klinkner, Howard Davis
March 31, 2021
The United Nations has established a right to the truth to be enjoyed by victims of gross violations of human rights. The origins of the right stem from the need to provide victims and relatives of the missing with a right to know what happened. It encompasses the verification and full public ...
Human Rights and Charity Law: International Perspectives
1st Edition
By Kerry O'Halloran
June 30, 2020
The 60 or so nations that subscribe to the common law tradition had for centuries broadly accepted the same legal definitions of what constitutes a charity. In recent years, however, a number of countries have embarked on charity law reform processes, designed to strengthen the regulatory framework...
Human Rights and Development in International Law
1st Edition
By Tahmina Karimova
June 30, 2020
This book addresses the legal issues raised by the interaction between human rights and development in contemporary international law. In particular, it charts the parameters of international law that states have to take into account in order to protect human rights in the process of development. ...
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 ...