Meghan Campbell is Reader in International Human Rights Law at the University of Birmingham.
Deborah Casalin was, at the time of writing, Principal Research Fellow at the Law and Development Research Group, Faculty of Law, at the University of Antwerp.
Marie-Bénédicte Dembour is Professor of Law and Anthropology at Ghent University and the Principal Investigator of the DISSECT: Evidence in International Human Rights Adjudication research project (ERC-ADG-2018-834044).
Elena Ghidoni is a postdoctoral researcher at the Human Rights Institute of the University of Deusto.
Matthew Gillett is Senior Lecturer at the University of Essex and a Vice-Chair of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.
Hanaa Hakiki directs the Border Justice Program at the Berlin-based European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), litigating European pushbacks and border violence in front of international adjudicative bodies.
Miia Halme-Tuomisaari is Associate Professor of Human Rights Studies at Lund University.
Yutaka Karukaya is a PhD candidate at Aoyama Gakuin University and a member of the University of Essex’s Arbitrary Detention Redress Unit.
Cornelia Klocker is Senior Researcher at Ghent University and a member of the DISSECT research project.
Mia Marzotto is a Human Rights Advocacy Officer and a member of the University of Essex’s Arbitrary Detention Redress Unit.
Kasey McCall-Smith is Senior Lecturer in Public International Law at the University of Edinburgh.
Vincent Ploton sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Human Rights Practice. At the time of writing, he was Head of UN Treaty Body advocacy at the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR).
Lisa Reinsberg is the founder of the International Justice Resource Center and Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.
Christopher Roberts is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Reetta Toivanen is Full Professor in Sustainability Science (Indigenous Sustainabilities) at the University of Helsinki.
Book contents
- Questions of Evidence in the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies’ Individual Communications Procedure
- Studies on International Courts and Tribunals
- Questions of Evidence in the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies’ Individual Communications Procedure
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Legal Technical Terms Used by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies
- Table of Cases
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: Studying Evidence in the United Nations Treaty Bodies’ Individual Communications Procedure
- Part I Standards and Burdens of Proof in Need of Clarification
- Part II Overall Trajectories of Evidentiary Systems in the Making
- Part III Developing Evidentiary Techniques Capable of Holding States Accountable
- Part IV What ‘Evidence’ May Leave Unseen
- Part V Going Forward: Practical Recommendations
- Index
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 April 2026
Book contents
- Questions of Evidence in the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies’ Individual Communications Procedure
- Studies on International Courts and Tribunals
- Questions of Evidence in the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies’ Individual Communications Procedure
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Legal Technical Terms Used by the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies
- Table of Cases
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: Studying Evidence in the United Nations Treaty Bodies’ Individual Communications Procedure
- Part I Standards and Burdens of Proof in Need of Clarification
- Part II Overall Trajectories of Evidentiary Systems in the Making
- Part III Developing Evidentiary Techniques Capable of Holding States Accountable
- Part IV What ‘Evidence’ May Leave Unseen
- Part V Going Forward: Practical Recommendations
- Index
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