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.
Collective Punishment and Human Rights Law: Addressing Gaps in International Law
1st Edition
By Cornelia Klocker
December 13, 2021
This book analyses collective punishment in the context of human rights law. Collective punishment is a concept deriving from the law of armed conflict. It describes the punishment of a group for an act allegedly committed by one of its members and is prohibited in times of armed conflict. Although...
Hate Speech and Human Rights in Eastern Europe: Legislating for Divergent Values
1st Edition
By Viera Pejchal
December 13, 2021
Hate Speech and Human Rights. Democracies need to understand these terms to properly adapt their legal frameworks. Regulation of hate speech exposes underlining and sometimes invisible societal values such as security and public order, equality and non-discrimination, human dignity, and other ...
Domestic Judicial Treatment of European Court of Human Rights Case Law: Beyond Compliance
1st Edition
By David Kosař, Jan Petrov, Katarína Šipulová, Hubert Smekal, Ladislav Vyhnánek, Jozef Janovský
September 30, 2021
The European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”) suffers from the burgeoning caseload and challenges to its authority. This two-pronged crisis undermines the ECtHR’s legitimacy and consequently the functioning of the whole European human rights regime. Domestic courts can serve as welcome allies of the...
International Law and Violence Against Women: Europe and the Istanbul Convention
1st Edition
Edited
By Johanna Niemi, Lourdes Peroni, Vladislava Stoyanova
September 30, 2021
This book offers an in-depth and critical analysis of the Istanbul Convention, along with discussions on its impact and implications.The work highlights the place of the Convention in the landscape of international law and policies on violence against women and equality. The authors argue that the ...
The Human Rights Council: The Impact of the Universal Periodic Review in Africa
1st Edition
By Damian Etone
September 30, 2021
This book examines the engagement of African states with the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism. This human rights mechanism is known for its pacific and non-confrontational approach to monitoring state human rights implementation. Coming at the end of ...
Human Rights Law and Evidence-Based Policy: The Impact of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency
1st Edition
Edited
By Rosemary Byrne, Han Entzinger
August 02, 2021
The EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) was established to provide evidence-based policy advice to EU institutions and Member States. By blending social science research with traditional normative work, it aims to influence human rights policy processes through new ways of framing empirical ...
Women and International Human Rights Law: Universal Periodic Review in Practice
1st Edition
By Gayatri Patel
August 02, 2021
This book presents the findings of the first comprehensive study on the most recent and most unique and innovative method of monitoring international human rights law at the United Nations. Since its existence, there has yet to be a complete and comprehensive book solely dedicated to exploring the ...
Women's Health and the Limits of Law: Domestic and International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Irehobhude O. Iyioha
August 02, 2021
Despite some significant advances in the creation and protection of rights affecting women’s health, these do not always translate into actual health benefits for women. This collection asks: 'What is an effective law and what influences law’s effectiveness or ineffectiveness? What dynamics, ...
Human Rights in India
1st Edition
Edited
By Satvinder Juss
June 30, 2021
This volume presents an integrated collection of essays around the theme of India’s failure to grapple with the big questions of human rights protections affecting marginalized minority groups in the country’s recent rush to modernization. The book traverses a broad range of rights violations from:...
Criminal Theory and International Human Rights Law
1st Edition
By Steven Malby
April 01, 2021
The development of an international human rights jurisprudence on criminalization is in its relative infancy. Nonetheless, systematic examination of international decisions on acts engaging the criminal law reveals an emerging human rights approach to the acceptability, or not, of criminalization. ...
Human Rights, Digital Society and the Law: A Research Companion
1st Edition
Edited
By Mart Susi
March 31, 2021
The Internet has created a formidable challenge for human rights law and practice worldwide. International scholarly and policy-oriented communities have so far established a consensus regarding only one main aspect – human rights in the internet are the same as offline. There are emerging and ...
Research Methods for International Human Rights Law: Beyond the traditional paradigm
1st Edition
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By Damian Gonzalez-Salzberg, Loveday Hodson
March 31, 2021
The study and teaching of international human rights law is dominated by the doctrinal method. A wealth of alternative approaches exists, but they tend to be discussed in isolation from one another. This collection focuses on cross-theoretical discussion that brings together an array of different ...