Routledge Studies in Human Rights
About the Book Series
The Routledge Human Rights series publishes high quality and cross-disciplinary scholarship on topics of key importance in human rights today. In a world where human rights are both celebrated and contested, this series is committed to create stronger links between disciplines and explore new methodological and theoretical approaches in human rights research. Aimed towards both scholars and human rights professionals, the series strives to provide both critical analysis and policy-oriented research in an accessible form. The series welcomes work on specific human rights issues as well as on cross-cutting themes and institutional perspectives.
Human Rights Economies and Subnational Governance: Theory and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Savitri Bisnath, Morten Kjaerum, Martha F. Davis
December 31, 2025
This book examines the understudied area of subnational human rights and the human rights economy. Against the context of increasing economic and political power of local level governments – both cities and subnational regions – this interdisciplinary volume provides a crucial examination of ...
Human Rights and Climate Change: The Law on Loss and Damage
1st Edition
By Linnéa Nordlander
June 27, 2025
This insightful and timely book examines the intersection of international climate change law and international human rights law with respect to loss and damage from climate change. Bringing together these two areas of the law, the volume reframes the debate on loss and damage law and offers the ...
Transnational Asylum: Toward a Principled Framework
1st Edition
By Nikolas Feith Tan
March 19, 2025
This book presents an original framework of transnational asylum to inform future cooperation between states on asylum processing and refugee protection. The book provides scholarly guidance on how policies can be undertaken in a way that conforms with the rights of asylum seekers and refugees ...
States, Human Rights, and Distant Strangers: The Normative Justification of Extraterritorial Obligations in Human Rights Law
1st Edition
By Angela Müller
January 30, 2025
This book combines legal and philosophical perspectives to address the question of whether states are bound by human rights when they act with effects on people abroad—states’ extraterritorial human rights obligations. Taking an innovative approach, it begins with a profound legal analysis of the ...
International Attention and the Protection of Human Rights Defenders: Campaigning for Agents of Change
1st Edition
By Janika Spannagel
November 28, 2024
This book uses a practice-driven and empirically founded approach to address the question of whether and how international attention can protect and enable domestic human rights activists in authoritarian settings. It examines the untold origin story of the ‘human rights defender’ term and its ...
Understanding Domestic Violence as a Gender-based Human Rights Violation: National and International contexts
1st Edition
By Jurgita Bukauskaite
October 07, 2024
Examining the prevalent issue of domestic violence, this book breaks down the reasons behind the ineffectiveness of existing human rights instruments and the gaps in current legal systems failing those in need. Through a variety of key case studies, it reveals significant gaps in the legal ...
Minorities, Free Speech and the Internet
1st Edition
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By Oscar Pérez de la Fuente, Alexander Tsesis, Jędrzej Skrzypczak
October 04, 2024
Minorities, Free Speech and the Internet explores the regulation of free speech online and offline. Views are divided as to how much regulation of the Internet is appropriate. Some argue that it should be an unregulated space for free content. On the other hand, in many democracies, online hate ...
Childism, Intersectionality and the Rights of the Child: The Myth of a Happy Childhood
1st Edition
By Rebecca Adami
August 19, 2024
This book is the first to comprehensively develop the concept of childism to understand, study, and analyze age-based discrimination against children. It presents a critical theory to help comprehend intersecting prejudice against children and to examine the weak implementation of the UN Convention...
Border Deaths at Sea under the Right to Life in the European Convention on Human Rights
1st Edition
By Lisa-Marie Komp
May 27, 2024
This book focuses on border deaths at sea. It unravels how the interplay of the law of the sea and rules on jurisdiction widen the opportunity for states to make and enforce rules outside their territory, and questions whether this is also accompanied with an obligation to respect the right to life...
Human Rights and Political Dissent in Central Europe: Between the Helsinki Accords and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
1st Edition
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By Jakub Tyszkiewicz
January 29, 2024
This volume examines to what extent the positive atmosphere created by the Helsinki Accords contributed to the change in political circumstances seen in the countries of Central Europe, under Soviet domination. It focuses in particular on - firstly - a consequent new impetus to bolster human ...
State-Building, Rule of Law, Good Governance and Human Rights in Post-Soviet Space: Thirty Years Looking Back
1st Edition
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By Lucia Leontiev, Punsara Amarasinghe
January 29, 2024
This edited book analyses the issues of state-building, the rule of law and good governance, and human rights in the post-Soviet space after 30 years from the USSR dissolution. In doing so, it assesses the presence (or absence) and the level of influence of the Soviet legacies in the constructed ...
US Counterterrorism and the Human Rights of Foreigners Abroad: Putting the Gloves Back On?
1st Edition
By Monika Heupel, Caiden Heaphy, Janina Heaphy
January 29, 2024
This book examines why the United States has introduced safeguards that are designed to prevent their counterterrorism policies from causing harm to non-US citizens beyond US territory. It investigates what made US policymakers take steps to "put the gloves back on" through five case studies on ...