Francisco Forrest Martin, Stephen J. Schnably, Richard Wilson, Jonathan Simon, Mark Tushnet

International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law: Treaties, Cases, and Analysis introduces the reader to the international legal instruments and case law governing the substantive and procedural dimensions of international human rights and humanitarian law, including economic, social, and cultural rights. It also discusses the history and organizational structure of human rights and humanitarian law enforcement mechanisms and contains a large number of case excerpts.

Michael B. Likosky

Law, Infrastructure and Human Rights looks at the relationship between international economic law and human rights. The book fits within a growing body of international law and social sciences literature looking at law and globalization. It is unique though as the first sole-authored book to look at privatized international infrastructure projects, law and human rights. It further distinguishes itself through its diverse and topical case studies, focusing on post-war Iraq, terrorism, indigenous rights, European Union expansion and urban poverty.

James C. Hathaway

In this book Hathaway presents the first comprehensive analysis of the human rights of refugees as set by the UN Refugee Convention. He links the standards of the Convention to key norms of international human rights law and applies his analysis to the world's most difficult protection challenges. This is a critical resource for advocates, judges, and policymakers. It will also be a pioneering scholarly work for graduate students of international and human rights law.

Conor Gearty

In this book, which is derived from the Hamlyn Lectures delivered in 2005, Conor Gearty considers whether human rights can survive the challenges of the war on terror, the revival of political religion, and the steady erosion of the world's natural resources. He also looks deeper than this to consider the fundamental questions: What are human rights? How can we tell what they are? Gearty confronts the challenges that may destroy the language of human rights for the generations that follow us.

Mark Freeman

This book examines notions of procedural fairness applicable to truth commissions. Truth commissions are official human rights investigations established in times of transition when a country undertakes to confront the dark periods of its past. Particularly since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa, the subject of truth commissions has attracted worldwide interest. With this book, the author examines an overlooked aspect of the truth commission experience: what standards of fairness should be applied by truth commissions to victims and implicated persons?

Paul M. Taylor

Freedom of thought, conscience and religion is one of the core freedoms found in international human rights instruments at both UN and European level. This timely study is the first to provide a detailed critique of the standards applicable to freedom of religion. UN and European standards are examined side-by-side in order to highlight the rationale for any apparent departures between the two systems and to determine the level of recognition given to different aspects of the freedom.

Marie-Bénédicte Dembour

Should we believe in human rights? Bentham, Marx, cultural relativists and feminists have tended to answer this question in the negative. This book reviews these classical critiques and shows how their insights manifest themselves in case law of the European Court of Human Rights, thus providing an original, accessible and insightful commentary on the European Convention on Human Rights. The book also maps out various concepts of human rights and proposes to identify, in its theoretically most novel chapter, four human rights schools: 'natural', 'deliberative', 'protest' and 'discourse'.

Peter Rowe

This book considers those aspects of human rights law which may become relevant to the activities of armed forces whether they remain in barracks, undertake training or are deployed in military operations within their own state or outside it. Rowe examines these issues, presenting a book that is an invaluable resource for scholars in human rights, international law and military studies, and anyone concerned with policy relevant to the armed forces.

David E. Guinn

This book seeks to advance the Middle East peace process by promoting the development of an international legal regime to protect the holy sites sacred to the three major religions of the West: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It explores the history of conflict over these sites, how they incited violence and obstructed settlement. It identifies the crucial issues that must be resolved in developing a regime to protect the holy sites, separate from any proposed final peace settlement, describing effective strategies for structuring the negotiation of such a legal regime.

Huw Beverley-Smith, Ansgar Ohly, Agnes Lucas-Schloetter

The protection of privacy and personality is one of the most fascinating issues confronting any legal system. This book provides a detailed comparative analysis of intellectual property rights in an individual's name, voice or likeness in the major legal systems: France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. It examines the tensions between protecting an individual's privacy and personality through intellectual property law and the wider public interests in free speech and free competition.

Edited by Andrew T. Kenyon, Megan Richardson

The challenges faced by privacy laws in changing technological, commercial and social environments are considered in this broad-ranging examination of privacy law. The book encompasses three overlapping areas of analysis: privacy protection under the general law; legislative measures for data protection in digital communications networks; and the influence of transnational agreements and other pressures toward harmonised privacy standards. Leading, internationally-recognised authors discuss developments across these three areas in the UK, Europe, the US, APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation), Australia and New Zealand.

Anna-Karin Lindblom

Even when governments have no democratic basis, they are regarded as the sole representatives of their populations on the international plane and take important decisions on their behalf. It is therefore important that other voices can be heard in international fora alongside governments. NGOs have an increasingly important legal and political role and use several different avenues for their work, such as lodging cases before international courts and other bodies and participating in international meetings and conferences. This book explores these possibilities for the participation of NGOs in international law.