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.
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 ...
Human Rights Law and Corporate Regulation: A Neo-Concession Approach
1st Edition
By Jonathan Barrett
October 24, 2024
This book argues for an intensely humanist engagement with the company and presents a model of company regulation that is compatible with the protection, respect for and fulfilment of human rights. Dr Barrett provides a theoretical framing for corporate regulation in the context of human rights ...
Domestic Abuse and the European Court of Human Rights
1st Edition
By Ronagh J.A. McQuigg
October 10, 2024
This book provides a detailed critical analysis of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights on domestic abuse. Such abuse affects vast numbers of people throughout all nations of the world. Although it was not until 2007 that domestic abuse was considered substantively by the ...
Surveillance Law, Data Retention and Human Rights: A Risk to Democracy
1st Edition
By Matthew White
September 16, 2024
This book analyses the compatibility of data retention in the UK with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The increase in the use of modern technology has led to an explosion of generated data and, with that, a greater interest from law enforcement and intelligence agencies. In the ...
Bulk Surveillance, Democracy and Human Rights Law in Europe: A Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
By Marcin Rojszczak
July 22, 2024
This book discusses contemporary standards of legal safeguards in the area of bulk electronic surveillance from the perspective of the European legal model. Bulk, or untargeted, surveillance, although traditionally associated with the interception of electronic communications, is increasingly used ...
Defamation and the Right to Freedom of Speech: The UK in Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
By Mariette Jones
June 28, 2024
In an effort to balance the protection of reputation and the right to free speech, the UK Parliament attempted to fundamentally transform English libel law through the Defamation Act 2013. This book evaluates the success of this attempt by means of a comparative analysis of relevant law in the ...
Decisional Privacy and the Rights of the Child
1st Edition
By Georgina Dimopoulos
May 27, 2024
Decisional privacy gives individuals the freedom to act and make decisions about how they live their lives, without unjustifiable interference from other individuals or the state. This book advances a theory of a child’s right to decisional privacy. It draws on the framework of the United Nations ...
International Human Rights Law and Destitution: An Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Perspective
1st Edition
By Luke Graham
May 27, 2024
This book explores destitution from the perspective of international human rights law and, more specifically, economic, social, and cultural rights. The experience of destitution correlates to the non-realisation of a range of economic, social, and cultural rights. However, destitution has not been...