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Routledge Research in Human Rights Law


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This series contains thought-provoking and original scholarship on human rights law. The books address civil and political rights as well as social, cultural and economic rights, and explore international, regional and domestic legal orders. The legal status, content, obligations and application of specific rights will be analysed as well as treaties, mechanisms and institutions designed to promote and protect rights.

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Hate Speech and Human Rights in Eastern Europe Legislating for Divergent Values

Hate Speech and Human Rights in Eastern Europe: Legislating for Divergent Values

1st Edition

By Viera Pejchal
May 12, 2020

Hate Speech and Human Rights. Democracies need to understand these terms to properly adapt their legal frameworks. Regulation of hate speech exposes underlining and sometimes invisible societal values such as security and public order, equality and non-discrimination, human dignity, and other ...

Domestic Judicial Treatment of European Court of Human Rights Case Law Beyond Compliance

Domestic Judicial Treatment of European Court of Human Rights Case Law: Beyond Compliance

1st Edition

By David Kosař, Jan Petrov, Katarína Šipulová, Hubert Smekal, Ladislav Vyhnánek, Jozef Janovský
March 16, 2020

The European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”) suffers from the burgeoning caseload and challenges to its authority. This two-pronged crisis undermines the ECtHR’s legitimacy and consequently the functioning of the whole European human rights regime. Domestic courts can serve as welcome allies of the...

International Law and Violence Against Women Europe and the Istanbul Convention

International Law and Violence Against Women: Europe and the Istanbul Convention

1st Edition

Edited By Johanna Niemi, Lourdes Peroni, Vladislava Stoyanova
March 08, 2020

This book offers an in-depth and critical analysis of the Istanbul Convention, along with discussions on its impact and implications. The work highlights the place of the Convention in the landscape of international law and policies on violence against women and equality. The authors argue that the...

Human Rights and America's War on Terror

Human Rights and America's War on Terror

1st Edition

Edited By Satvinder S. Juss
February 25, 2020

This volume examines the success of the 9/11 attacks in undermining the cherished principles of Western democracy, free speech and tolerance, which were central to US values. It is argued that this has led to the USA fighting disastrous wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and to sanctioning the use of ...

The Human Rights Council The Impact of the Universal Periodic Review in Africa

The Human Rights Council: The Impact of the Universal Periodic Review in Africa

1st Edition

By Damian Etone
February 03, 2020

This book examines the engagement of African states with the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism. This human rights mechanism is known for its pacific and non-confrontational approach to monitoring state human rights implementation. Coming at the end of ...

Women's Health and the Limits of Law Domestic and International Perspectives

Women's Health and the Limits of Law: Domestic and International Perspectives

1st Edition

Edited By Irehobhude O. Iyioha
December 13, 2019

Despite some significant advances in the creation and protection of rights affecting women’s health, these do not always translate into actual health benefits for women. This collection asks: 'What is an effective law and what influences law’s effectiveness or ineffectiveness? What dynamics, ...

Human Rights Law and Evidence-Based Policy The Impact of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency

Human Rights Law and Evidence-Based Policy: The Impact of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency

1st Edition

Edited By Rosemary Byrne, Han Entzinger
December 11, 2019

The EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) was established to provide evidence-based policy advice to EU institutions and Member States. By blending social science research with traditional normative work, it aims to influence human rights policy processes through new ways of framing empirical ...

Women and International Human Rights Law Universal Periodic Review in Practice

Women and International Human Rights Law: Universal Periodic Review in Practice

1st Edition

By Gayatri Patel
December 05, 2019

This book presents the findings of the first comprehensive study on the most recent and most unique and innovative method of monitoring international human rights law at the United Nations. Since its existence, there has yet to be a complete and comprehensive book solely dedicated to exploring the ...

Human Rights in India

Human Rights in India

1st Edition

Edited By Satvinder Juss
October 04, 2019

This volume presents an integrated collection of essays around the theme of India’s failure to grapple with the big questions of human rights protections affecting marginalized minority groups in the country’s recent rush to modernization. The book traverses a broad range of rights violations from:...

Criminal Theory and International Human Rights Law

Criminal Theory and International Human Rights Law

1st Edition

By Steven Malby
September 25, 2019

The development of an international human rights jurisprudence on criminalization is in its relative infancy. Nonetheless, systematic examination of international decisions on acts engaging the criminal law reveals an emerging human rights approach to the acceptability, or not, of criminalization. ...

Research Methods for International Human Rights Law Beyond the traditional paradigm

Research Methods for International Human Rights Law: Beyond the traditional paradigm

1st Edition

Edited By Damian Gonzalez-Salzberg, Loveday Hodson
June 24, 2019

The study and teaching of international human rights law is dominated by the doctrinal method. A wealth of alternative approaches exists, but they tend to be discussed in isolation from one another. This collection focuses on cross-theoretical discussion that brings together an array of different ...

Human Rights, Digital Society and the Law A Research Companion

Human Rights, Digital Society and the Law: A Research Companion

1st Edition

Edited By Mart Susi
June 17, 2019

The Internet has created a formidable challenge for human rights law and practice worldwide. International scholarly and policy-oriented communities have so far established a consensus regarding only one main aspect – human rights in the internet are the same as offline. There are emerging and ...

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