Towards Convergence in International Human Rights Law PDF Download

Author: Carla M. Buckley
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004284257
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 685

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In this edited collection, leading jurists and scholars examine how far regional and international human rights bodies borrow from and influence each other in their decisions and practices – and whether international human rights law is heading towards fragmentation or greater coherence.

Author: Paul De Hert
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781780686400
Category : Droit international humanitaire
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Although rooted in a similar ideal, human rights (IHRL), international criminal law (ICL) and international humanitarian law (IHL) are separate fields of law, best represented as circles, each of which overlaps with the other two. However human rights often seems to absorb the other two, while in other situations, the lines between human rights law and its next door neighbours are blurred or contested.This volume consists of three main parts. The first main part explores the convergences and divergences between IHL and/or IHRL on the one hand, and ICL stricto sensu on the other hand. The second part investigates the convergences and divergences between IHRL and transnational crimes, or ICL in the broader sense, which suppresses crimes such as drug trafficking, trafficking in human beings and corruption through international treaties providing for domestic enforcement. The last main part of this volume provides the reader with novel and original insights as to how IHRL and IHL converge and diverge by considering if and how the norms of other branches of international law come into play and how the European Court of Human Rights has engaged with the sometimes contradicting norms of IHL. It furthermore analyses the relationship between the specific IHL and IHRL norms which prohibit arbitrary displacement and maps their interaction. Finally, the effectiveness of States' investigations of war crimes committed by their armed forces is evaluated by emphasising attention to the relevant standards developed within IHRL, since IHL does not indicate specific criteria to evaluate the effectiveness of an investigation.

Author: Walter Kälin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198825684
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 641

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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.

Author: Elena Abrusci
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316514811
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 307

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An assessment of judicial convergence and fragmentation in international human rights law and their legal and non-legal triggering factors.

Author: Elena Abrusci
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009093177
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 307

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This book provides an innovative analysis of the complex issue of judicial convergence and fragmentation in international human rights law, moving the conversation forward from the assessment of the two phenomena and investigating their triggering factors. With a wide geographical focus that include the most up-to-date case-law from the three main regional systems (the African, European and Inter-American) and the UN Human Rights Committee, the book confirms the predominant judicial convergence across international human rights law. On this basis, the book engages with an interdisciplinary investigation into the legal and non-legal factors that could explain both convergence and fragmentation, ranging from the use of judicial dialogue and the notions of necessity and proportionality to the composition of the courts and the role of NGOs. The aim is to provide the tools to understand the dynamics between human rights adjudicatory bodies and possibly foresee future instances of judicial fragmentation.

Author: Jens David Ohlin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107137934
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 417

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A theoretical examination of the tense and uncertain relationship between the laws of war and human rights law.

Author: Erika De Wet
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781920538323
Category : Human rights
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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Author: Mads Tønnesson Andenæs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107082099
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 605

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Exploring the role of the International Court of Justice in the re-convergence of international law, this book contends that the court's jurisprudence is transforming traditional concepts such as sovereignty, rights and jurisdiction and in so doing is leading a trend towards the reunification of international law.

Author: Azizur Rahman Chowdhury
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047444027
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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This book provides a precise concept of international human rights law, its development and the tangible meaning of civil and political rights, economic and social rights. It has highlighted women’s rights, globalization, human rights education, role of the UN and NGOs to protect human rights.

Author: Mads Andenas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316368610
Category : Law
Languages : en
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Fragmentation has been much discussed as a threat to international law as a legal system. This book contends that the fragmentation of international law is far exceeded by its convergence, as international bodies find ways to account for each other and the interactions of emerging sub-fields. Reasserting its role as the 'principal judicial organ of the United Nations', the International Court of Justice has ensured that the centre of international law can and does hold. This process has strengthened a trend towards the reunification of international law. In order to explore this process, this book looks at fragmentation and convergence from the point of view of the centre of the International Court and of the position of other courts and tribunals. Featuring contributions by leading international lawyers from a range of backgrounds, this volume proposes both a new take and the last word on the fragmentation debate in international law.