1st Edition
Collective Punishment and Human Rights Law Addressing Gaps in International Law
By Cornelia Klocker
Copyright 2020
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book analyses collective punishment in the context of human rights law. Collective punishment is a concept deriving from the law of armed conflict. It describes the punishment of a group for an act allegedly committed by one of its members and is prohibited in times of armed conflict. Although the imposition of collective punishment has been witnessed in situations outside armed conflict as... Read more
- Introduction;
- Collective punishment and the law of armed conflict;
- Case study: Collective punishment in the Occupied Palestinian Territories;
- Collective punishment and human rights law;
- Case study: Collective punishment in Chechnya;
- Conceptual differences and human rights held by groups;
- Can the European Convention on Human Rights encompass a prohibition of collective punishment?;
Conclusion;
Biography
Cornelia Klocker is a postdoctoral fellow at the Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz, Germany and affiliated with the Chair for Public Law with Focus on International Law, University of Konstanz, Germany. She holds a Magistra iuris from the University of Salzburg, Austria, an LLM (International Law) from the University of Sussex, United Kingdom and a PhD (Law) from Birkbeck College, United Kingdom.
