How does the law apprehend the economical, political and military differences ? This book explores the role the law has played and continues to play in the confrontation between the strong and the weak.
Book | 1st edition 2018 | United Kingdom | Wolfgang Benedek, Philip Czech, Lisa Heschl, Karin Lukas, Manfred Nowak
Both in Europe and around the world, 2017 has been another difficult year for the protection of human rights. Split into its customary four parts, the tenth volume of the European Yearbook on Human Rights brings together renowned scholars to analyse some of the most pressing and topical human rights issues being faced in Europe today.
Book | 1st edition 2018 | United Kingdom | Emmanuelle Bribosia, Isabelle Rorive
'Human Rights Tectonics' is a collaborative effort of internationally renowned human rights experts to analyse the effectiveness of legal protection in a highly fragmented and multi-layered human rights system.
Tensions and Dilemmas between Collective Reparations with the Individual Right to Receive Reparations
Book | 1st edition 2018 | United Kingdom | Diana Odier Contreras-Garduno
This book presents the first study on collective reparations. It aims to shed light on the legal framework, content and scope of collective reparations, and to the relationship between collective reparations and the individual right to reparations.
Book | 1st edition 2018 | World | Paul De Hert, Stefaan Smis, Mathias Holvoet
Although rooted in a similar ideal, human rights (IHRL), international criminal law (ICL) and international humanitarian law (IHL) are separate fields of law, best represented as circles, each of which overlaps with the other two. However human rights often seems to absorb the other two, while in other situations, the lines between human rights law and its next door neighbours are blurred or contested.
On the principle nullum crimen, nulla poena sine lege in EU law and under the ECHR
Book | 1st edition 2018 | Europe | Mikhel Timmerman
Through the establishment of EU criminal law, EU actors have come to influence the definition and interpretation of domestic crimes and penalties. Both the EU legislature and the CJEU define and interpret provisions of EU law with relevance for the determination of criminal liability and the prescription of applicable penalties in the law of the Member States. This influence on substantive criminal law raises questions about the limits to these legislative and interpretive activities, both at the EU level and at the level of the Member States.
Book | 1st edition 2018 | United Kingdom | Lilian Chenwi, Takele Bulto
This book addresses the often neglected question of whether African regional human rights instruments impose extraterritorial obligations on State parties, and if so, the extent and scope of these obligations.
Book | 1st edition 2018 | United Kingdom | Lisa Heschl
In times of the proclaimed 'refugee crisis' this book aims to shed light on human rights and refugee law responsibilities of EU member states and other relevant actors when engaging in border control measures beyond the territory of the EU.
Between Uniformity and Legal Pluralism in the Inter-American Human Rights System
Book | 1st edition 2018 | United Kingdom | Pablo González-Domínguez
This book studies the doctrine of conventionality control in the Inter-American Human Rights System. It appeals to the principle of subsidiarity as a theoretical key to solve some of the inherent tensions of a doctrine that aims to increase the effectiveness of the American Convention on Human Rights and the decisions of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in a plurality of constitutional systems and traditions in the region.
Theoretical and Practical Considerations for a UN Treaty
Book | 1st edition 2018 | United Kingdom | Jernej Letnar Cernic, Nicolás Carrillo-Santarelli
This book presents theoretical and practical considerations on whether it would be feasible to adopt an international treaty on business and human rights to address corporate human rights abuses.
Book | 5th edition 2018 | United Kingdom | Pieter van Dijk, Fried van Hoof, Arjen van Rijn, Leo Zwaak
This book provides a systematic and comprehensive overview of the functioning of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and its application by the European Court of Human Rights.
Book | 5th edition 2018 | United Kingdom | Pieter van Dijk, Fried van Hoof, Arjen van Rijn, Leo Zwaak
This book provides a systematic and comprehensive overview of the functioning of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and its application by the European Court of Human Rights.
Book | 1st edition 2017 | World | Maïté Van Regemorter
Does a person accused of genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes before the International Criminal Court (ICC) enjoy the same human rights as a person accused of the same crimes before a national jurisdiction?
Moving Beyond the Individual in the Age of Big Data
Book | 1st edition 2017 | United Kingdom | Bart van der Sloot
Privacy as Virtue discusses whether a rights-based approach to privacy regulation still suffices to address the challenges triggered by new data processing techniques such as Big Data and mass surveillance.
Fundamentals of Civil Procedure and the Changing Face of Civil Justice
Book | 1st edition 2017 | Europe | Alan Uzelac, C.H. van Rhee
Based on the wish to reopen an international comparative discussion on fundamental notions of civil procedure, this book offers a number of insights into procedural human rights from different jurisdictions and different points of view.
Under Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights
Book | 1st edition 2017 | United Kingdom | Omkar Sidhu
Inherent to and at the very core of the right to a fair criminal trial under Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights is the concept of equality of arms (procedural equality) between the parties, the construct given detailed and innovative treatment in this book.
Access to Controlled Essential Medicines in Resource-Constrained Countries
Book | 1st edition 2017 | United Kingdom | Marie Gispen
Human Rights and Drug Control analyses a human rights interpretation of the international drug-control framework with an emphasis on advancing the access to controlled essential medicines in resource-constrained countries.
Book | 1st edition 2017 | World | Francesca Capone
This book offers an analysis of the existing normative framework regulating the right to reparation for child victims of armed conflict. The study questions whether the current framework is sufficiently developed to provide child victims with adequate, effective and prompt reparations.
The Role of the Human Rights Activist and the Scholar
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Fons Coomans
This booklet deals with human dignity by looking at the different roles the human rights defender, the scholar and the human rights NGO can play in defending dignity.
