The Legal Nature of International Human Rights
Title | The Legal Nature of International Human Rights PDF eBook |
Author | Michael K. Addo |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 581 |
Release | 2010-05-17 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9047444426 |
A distinct legal perspective of human rights has evolved alongside the traditional recognition as politics or philosophy. As an evolving social construct under the managerial direction of international human rights courts and treaty bodies, it provides a good framework in which to appreciate the substantive law.
Beyond Human Rights
Title | Beyond Human Rights PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Peters |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 645 |
Release | 2016-10-27 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1107164303 |
Beyond Human Rights, previously published in German and now available in English, is a historical and doctrinal study about the legal status of individuals in international law.
The Legal Nature of International Human Rights
Title | The Legal Nature of International Human Rights PDF eBook |
Author | Michael K. Addo |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 549 |
Release | 2010 |
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The Law of International Human Rights Protection
Title | The Law of International Human Rights Protection PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Kälin |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 641 |
Release | 2019-08-29 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0198825684 |
At a time when human rights are coming under increasing pressure, in-depth knowledge and understanding of their foundations, conceptual underpinnings and current practice remain crucial. The second edition of Walter Kalin and Jorg Kunzli's authoritative book provides a concise but comprehensive legal analysis of international human rights protection at the global and regional levels. It shows that human rights are real rights creating legal entitlements for those who are protected by them and imposing legal obligations on those bound by them. Based, in particular, on a wide-ranging analysis of international case-law, the book focuses on the sources and scope of application of human rights and a discussion of their substantive guarantees. Further chapters describe the different mechanisms to monitor the implementation of human rights obligations, ranging from the regional human rights courts in Africa, the Americas and Europe and the UN treaty bodies to the international criminal tribunals, the International Court of Justice and the UN Security Council. The book is based on an understanding of human rights as legal concepts that address basic human needs and vulnerabilities, and highlights the indivisibility of civil and political rights on the one and economic, social and cultural rights on the other hand. It also highlights the convergence of international human rights and international humanitarian law and the interlinkages with international criminal law as well as general international law, in particular the law of state responsibility.
International Human Rights Law
Title | International Human Rights Law PDF eBook |
Author | Riccardo Pisillo Mazzeschi |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Total Pages | 557 |
Release | 2021-09-29 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 303077032X |
This textbook provides a thorough and systematic overview of human rights law, including the most relevant practice and case law, but also dealing with theoretical issues. It pursues an original approach, seeking to reconcile its didactic purpose with a scientific one, positing that there must be a necessary synergy between these two purposes. Furthermore, the author is convinced that international human rights law should not be studied (as is done in virtually every textbook) as a special legal regime, separate and autonomous from the overall system of international law; but as a regime that is fully integrated into the international legal order. The book’s dominant theme is the interrelationship of international human rights law and general international law. Following this approach, the author has chosen to devote comparatively little content to institutional issues (Part IV) and to instead more intensively explore the structural impact of human rights law on the entire international order (Part I); on the sources (Part II) and obligations (Part III) of general international law; and what constitutes “fundamental” human rights (Part V), without neglecting other rights (Part VI).
Hierarchy in International Law
Title | Hierarchy in International Law PDF eBook |
Author | Erika De Wet |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 365 |
Release | 2012-03 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0199647070 |
The existence of a hierarchy between the different international legal rules is increasingly being debated. This volume will identify the extent to which judicial bodies and domestic courts contribute to an emerging normative hierarchy within international law, based on the primacy of human rights.
UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies
Title | UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies PDF eBook |
Author | Leena Grover |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 491 |
Release | 2012-04-16 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1107006546 |
An analysis of the UN human rights treaty bodies, their methods of interpretation, their effectiveness and issues of legitimacy.