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.
Critical Indigenous Rights Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Giselle Corradi, Koen de Feyter, Ellen Desmet, Katrijn Vanhees
January 14, 2020
The field of ‘critical indigenous rights studies’ is a complex one that benefits from an interdisciplinary perspective and a realist (as opposed to an idealised) approach to indigenous peoples. This book draws on sociology of law, anthropology, political sciences and legal sciences in order to ...
Global Perspectives on Legal Capacity Reform: Our Voices, Our Stories
1st Edition
Edited
By Eilionóir Flynn, Anna Arstein-Kerslake, Clíona de Bhailís, Maria Laura Serra
January 14, 2020
This edited collection is the result of the Voices of Individuals: Collectively Exploring Self-determination (VOICES) based at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy, National University of Ireland Galway. Focusing on the exercise of legal capacity under Article 12 of the UN Convention on the ...
Freedom from Religion and Human Rights Law: Strengthening the Right to Freedom of Religion and Belief for Non-Religious and Atheist Rights-Holders
1st Edition
By Marika McAdam
December 12, 2019
Although human rights belong to all persons on the basis of their humanity, this book demonstrates that in the practice of international human rights law, the freedom to be non-religious or atheist does not receive the same protection as the freedom to be religious. Despite the claimed universality...
Dignity, Degrading Treatment and Torture in Human Rights Law: The Ends of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights
1st Edition
By Elaine Webster
December 09, 2019
Although scholars have shown longstanding interest in the boundaries of interpretation of the right not to be subjected to torture and other prohibited harm, the existing body of work does not sufficiently reflect the significance of the interpretive scope of degrading treatment. This book argues ...
Human Rights Law and Regulating Freedom of Expression in New Media: Lessons from Nordic Approaches
1st Edition
Edited
By Mart Susi, Jukka Viljanen, Eiríkur Jónsson, Artūrs Kučs
November 08, 2019
The Nordic countries are well known globally for their high human rights standards and, at the same time, high degree of internet freedom. This edited collection reveals how the Nordic countries have succeeded in the task of protecting freedom of expression in the new media. It contains an overview...
Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Belonging: The Right to Equal Belonging in a Democratic Society
1st Edition
By Elena Drymiotou
November 08, 2019
While every constitution includes a provision over the right to equal protection of the laws, perhaps with different terminology, this book interprets this right in a new way. Theories of the right to equal protection of the laws as the right to anti-subordination are the most influential theories ...
The Istanbul Convention, Domestic Violence and Human Rights
1st Edition
By Ronagh McQuigg
May 23, 2019
The Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (also known as the Istanbul Convention) was adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on 7 April 2011. The Convention entered into force on 1 August 2014 and has currently been ratified by ...
Freedom of Expression and Religious Hate Speech in Europe
1st Edition
By Erica Howard
May 14, 2019
In recent years, the Danish cartoons affair, the Charlie Hebdo murders and the terrorist attacks in Brussels and Paris have resulted in increasingly strident anti-Islamic speeches by politicians. This raises questions about the limits to freedom of expression and whether this freedom can and should...
The Protection of Vulnerable Groups under International Human Rights Law
1st Edition
By Ingrid Nifosi-Sutton
May 01, 2019
The protection of vulnerable groups varies under international human rights law. Depending on the group at stake, protection may be more or less advanced. In some cases, the international community has deemed it necessary to adopt conventions providing for the rights of certain vulnerable groups ...
Children's Rights Law in the Global Human Rights Landscape: Isolation, inspiration, integration?
1st Edition
Edited
By Eva Brems, Ellen Desmet, Wouter Vandenhole
March 20, 2019
Children’s rights law is often studied and perceived in isolation from the broader field of human rights law. This volume explores the inter-relationship between children’s rights law and more general human rights law in order to see whether elements from each could successfully inform the other. ...
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 ...