278 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

This book aims to prospectively conjecture about what the coming decades may hold for human rights. The authors in this volume discern where current trends are likely to lead and try to make sense of the future they herald. Human rights – as a legal, political, and social practice – have experienced significant achievements and successes, some notable setbacks and failures, and numerous... Read more

Introduction: The Future of Human Rights

Gentian Zyberi, Johan Karlsson Schaffer, Carola Lingaas and Eduardo Sánchez Madrigal

1. Are Human Rights Enough? Exploring Ways to Reimagining Human Rights Law

Kirtika Kattel

2. The Future of Human Rights and the African Human Rights System

Solomon Ayele Dersso

3. Pushing Boundaries: Building a Community of Practice at the Intersection of Human Rights and Economics

Allison Corkery, Gilad Isaacs and Carilee Osborne

4. Reparations for Chattel Slavery: A Call From the ‘Periphery’ to Decolonise International (Human Rights) Law

Ramona Biholar

5. It's Time to Expand the Right to Education

Bede Sheppard

6. Preventing Disasters and Displacement: How Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights Can Advance Local Resilience

Miriam Cullen and Jane Munro

7. Gender, Climate Breakdown and Resistance: The Future of Human Rights in the Shadow of Authoritarianism

Annika Bergman Rosamond and Daria Davitti

8. The Future is Now: Climate Cases Before the ECtHR

Helen Keller and Corina Heri

9. Rural Local Communities as Holders of Human Rights: From Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling to Small-Scale Local Community Whaling?

Lotta Viikari

10. International Human Rights, Artificial Intelligence, and the Challenge for the Pondering State: Time to Regulate?

José-Miguel Bello y Villarino and Ramona Vijeyarasa

11. How Artificial Intelligence Systems Challenge the Conceptual Foundations of the Human Rights Legal Framework

Sue Anne Teo

12. From the Vantage Point of Vulnerability Theory: Algorithmic Decision-Making and Access to the European Court of Human Rights

Zuzanna Godzimirska, Aysel Küçüksu and Salome Ravn

13. Two Paths in the Future Relationship of the European Court of Human Rights and the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights

Martin Lolle Christensen and William Hamilton Byrne

Biography

Gentian Zyberi is Professor of International Law and Human Rights, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo, Norway.

Johan Karlsson Schaffer is Associate Professor in the School of Global Studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Carola Lingaas is Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Studies at VID Specialized University, Norway.

Eduardo Sánchez Madrigal is Research Assistant at the Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies, Norway.