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.
Human Rights Education and the Politics of Knowledge
1st Edition
By Joanne Coysh
October 18, 2018
Around the world there are a myriad of NGOs using human rights education (HRE) as a tool of community empowerment with the firm belief that it will help people improve their lives. One way of understanding these processes is that they translate universal human rights speak using messages and ...
Resolving Conflicts between Human Rights: The Judge's Dilemma
1st Edition
By Stijn Smet
October 18, 2018
Under the influence of the global spread of human rights, legal disputes are increasingly framed in human rights terms. Parties to a legal dispute can often invoke human rights norms in support of their competing claims. Yet, when confronted with cases in which human rights conflict, judges face a ...
The ECHR and Human Rights Theory: Reconciling the Moral and the Political Conceptions
1st Edition
By Alain Zysset
October 18, 2018
The European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) has been relatively neglected in the field of normative human rights theory. This book aims to bridge the gap between human rights theory and the practice of the ECHR. In order to do so, it tests the two overarching approaches in human rights theory ...
Developing the Right to Social Security - A Gender Perspective
1st Edition
By Beth Goldblatt
January 03, 2018
The right to social security, found in international law and in the constitutions of many nations, contributes to the alleviation of poverty globally. Social security and its articulation as a human right have received increased attention in recent years both in response to austerity cuts to ...
Comparative Executive Clemency: The Constitutional Pardon Power and the Prerogative of Mercy in Global Perspective
1st Edition
By Andrew Novak
December 21, 2017
Virtually every constitutional order in the common law world contains a provision for executive clemency or pardon in criminal cases. This facility for legal mercy is not limited to a single place in modern legal systems, but is instead realized through various practices such as a law enforcement ...
Towards Human Rights in Residential Care for Older Persons: International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Helen Meenan, Nicola Rees, Israel Doron
December 21, 2017
People are leading significantly longer lives than previous generations did, and the proportion of older people in the population is growing. Residential care for older people will become increasingly necessary as our society ages and, we will require more of it. At this moment in time, the rights ...
Indigenous Peoples, Title to Territory, Rights and Resources: The Transformative Role of Free Prior and Informed Consent
1st Edition
By Cathal M. Doyle
July 03, 2017
The right of indigenous peoples under international human rights law to give or withhold their Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) to natural resource extraction in their territories is increasingly recognized by intergovernmental organizations, international bodies, and industry actors, as well...
Challenging Territoriality in Human Rights Law: Building Blocks for a Plural and Diverse Duty-Bearer Regime
1st Edition
Edited
By Wouter Vandenhole
January 19, 2017
Human rights have traditionally been framed in a vertical perspective with the duties of States confined to their own citizens or residents. Interpretations of international human rights treaties tend either to ignore or downplay obligations beyond this ‘territorial space’. This edited volume ...
Care, Migration and Human Rights: Law and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Siobhán Mullally
January 11, 2017
The continuum of exploitation that has historically defined the everyday of domestic work - exclusion from employment and social security standards and precarious migration status – has frequently been neglected. It is primarily the moments of crisis, incidents of human trafficking, slavery or ...
China’s Human Rights Lawyers: Advocacy and Resistance
1st Edition
By Eva Pils
November 07, 2016
This book offers a unique insight into the role of human rights lawyers in Chinese law and politics. In her extensive account, Eva Pils shows how these practitioners are important as legal advocates for victims of injustice and how bureaucratic systems of control operate to subdue and marginalise ...
Business and Human Rights in Southeast Asia: Risk and the Regulatory Turn
1st Edition
Edited
By Mahdev Mohan, Cynthia Morel
August 03, 2016
Business and human rights has emerged as a distinct field within the corporate governance movement. The endorsement by the United Nations Human Rights Council of a new set of Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights in 2011 reinforces the State’s duty to protect against human rights abuses ...
Human Rights Law in Europe: The Influence, Overlaps and Contradictions of the EU and the ECHR
1st Edition
Edited
By Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou, Theodore Konstadinides, Tobias Lock, Noreen O'Meara
July 27, 2016
This book provides analysis and critique of the dual protection of human rights in Europe by assessing the developing legal relationship between the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The book offers a comprehensive consideration of the ...