1st Edition
Challenges in International Human Rights Law Volume III
Edited By Menno T. Kamminga
Copyright 2014
820 Pages
by
Routledge
824 Pages
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
The main challenges within international human rights law are generally thought to be in the fields of transitional justice, non-state actors, terrorism, development, poverty and environmental degradation. This volume of articles not only covers these mainstream challenges but also a wider and more systematic range, including justiciability of social and economic rights, extraterritoriality,... Read more
Contents: Introduction. Part I Contents and Scope: Universality: On the universality of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Wiktor Osiatynski; Human rights in Islam and international law: a conceptual analysis, Shaheen Sardar Ali; Anti-essentialism, relativism, and human rights, Tracy E. Higgins; Economic and Social Rights: The justiciability of social and economic rights: an updated appraisal, Aoife Nolan, Bruce Porter and Malcolm Langford; Extraterritoriality: The scope of the extra-territorial applicability of international human rights law, Françoise Hampson. Part II Application to Urgent Social Issues: Terrorism: Unilateral exceptions to international law: systematic legal analysis and critique of doctrines that seek to deny or reduce the applicability of human rights norms in the fight against terrorism, Martin Scheinin and Mathias Vermeulen; Report of the special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions: study on targeted killings, Philip Alston; Impunity: ’Settling accounts’ revisited: reconciling global norms with local agency, Diane F. Orentlicher; Immunities of state officials, international crimes and foreign domestic courts, Dapo Akande and Sangeeta Shah; Health: Human rights approach to public health policy, Daniel Tarantola and Sofia Gruskin; Climate Change: Introduction: human rights and climate change, Stephen Humphreys; Investment: Human rights and international investment arbitration, Clara Reiner and Christoph Schreuer. Part III Application to Non-State Actors: International Organizations: The European Court of Justice and the international legal order after Kadi, Gráinne de Búrca; WTO dispute settlement and human rights, Gabrielle Marceau; Armed Opposition Groups: Human rights obligations of non-state actors in conflict situations, Andrew Clapham; Corporations: Taming the leviathans: multinational enterprises and human rights, Sarah Joseph; The Ruggie rules: applying human rights law to corporations, John H. Kno
Biography
Menno T. Kamminga is Professor of International Law and Director of the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights, Maastricht University, The Netherlands.
