Routledge Research in Human Rights Law
About the Book Series
This series contains thought-provoking and original scholarship on human rights law. The books address civil and political rights as well as social, cultural and economic rights, and explore international, regional and domestic legal orders. The legal status, content, obligations and application of specific rights will be analysed as well as treaties, mechanisms and institutions designed to promote and protect rights.
Political Disinformation and the Law: Safeguarding Freedom of Expression In Europe
1st Edition
By Christopher Phiri
December 08, 2025
Political disinformation, broadly understood as disinformation relating to matters of public interest, presents a pervasive challenge in today’s information landscape. This book argues that the state can, and indeed has a duty to, regulate the phenomenon of political disinformation in a holistic ...
Human Rights and Gender Based Violence in Asia: A Comparative Critical Analysis
1st Edition
Edited
By Fozia Nazir Lone, Guobin Zhu, Anthony Carty
November 24, 2025
This edited book adopts a prescriptive and culturally relative narrative to understand and critique human rights within Asia. Simultaneously, it aims to understand how human rights, especially, such as women's rights, are practised and protected by Asian nations. The book evaluates the realisation ...
The International Legal Framework on Violence Against Women: The Need for Reform
1st Edition
By Ronagh J.A. McQuigg
November 05, 2025
This book provides in-depth critical analysis of the international legal framework on violence against women and, crucially, the need for reform of this framework. Violence against women occurs in every state worldwide and constitutes one of the most prevalent human rights abuses at the global ...
The Human Rights Principle of Indivisibility
1st Edition
By Dorothea Anthony
September 24, 2025
The indivisibility principle holds that all human rights are equally important and should be respected in equal measure. This book provides a comprehensive explanation and analysis of indivisibility — its meaning(s), history, ideological significance, benefits, and shortfalls. In this way, the work...
Hate Speech and the European Court of Human Rights
1st Edition
By Natalie Alkiviadou
June 30, 2025
This book argues that the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) should reconsider its approach to hate speech cases and develop a robust protection of freedom of expression as set out in the benchmark case of Handyside v the United Kingdom. In that case, the ECtHR determined that Article 10 of the...
The European Convention on Human Rights and the COVID-19 Pandemic
1st Edition
By Ronagh J.A. McQuigg
May 27, 2025
This book provides detailed analysis of the applicability of the provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights to issues raised by the COVID-19 pandemic. It encompasses in-depth discussion of the emerging jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights relating to issues arising from ...
Transitional Justice Archives: Documenting Human Rights Violations in Latin America
1st Edition
Edited
By Anita Ferrara, Beatrice Canossi
May 21, 2025
Latin America has amassed comprehensive expertise in generating, managing, and providing access to archives documenting widespread human rights violations. This book explores and traces the multiple pathways that led to the creation and production of transitional justice archives in selected Latin ...
The Right of the Child to Play: From Conception to Implementation
1st Edition
By Naomi Lott
April 14, 2025
This book provides a vital and original investigation into, and critique of, the situation facing the realisation of the child’s right to play. The right to play has been referred to as a forgotten right – forgotten by States implementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child, by the Committee ...
Detention and the Right to Liberty: Addressing Gaps in Protection at the European Court of Human Rights
1st Edition
By Sabina Garahan
April 01, 2025
This book is a ground-breaking study of how the European Court of Human Rights interprets Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights – the right to liberty and security. The right to liberty is a fundamental provision that is enshrined not only in the Convention but in all major human ...
Refugee Displacement, Disability and Human Rights: The Production, Processing and Power of Data
1st Edition
By Philippa Duell-Piening
February 25, 2025
This book presents a timely and innovative exploration of one of the first human rights articles about data production and processing: the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities article 31, ‘Statistics and data collection’. The study provides detailed explorations of the legal and ...
Social Media, Fundamental Rights and Courts: A European Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Federica Casarosa, Evangelia Psychogiopoulou
November 29, 2024
This volume examines European and national higher-court decisions on social media from the perspective of fundamental rights and judicial dialogue. While the challenges social media poses for public policy and regulation have been widely discussed, the role of courts in this evolving legal area, ...
Sports Investigations Law and the ECHR: Collection, Use and Exchange of Intelligence
1st Edition
By Björn Hessert
November 28, 2024
This book focuses on the analysis of coercive measures that sports organisations are permitted to use as part of their internal sports investigation proceedings to investigate sports rule violations. The legality of such coercive measures is measured against the legal regime of the European ...