Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Buckley, Donald, & Leach: Towards Convergence in International Human Rights Law

Carla M. Buckley (Univ. of Nottingham - Human Rights Law Centre), Alice Donald (Middlesex Univ. - Law) & Philip Leach (Middlesex Univ. - Law) have published Towards Convergence in International Human Rights Law: Approaches of Regional and International Systems (Brill | Nijhoff 2017). Contents include:
  • Antônio Cançado Trindade, Preface: International Tribunals and the Pursuance of Jurisprudential Harmonisation in their Common Mission of Realisation of Justice
  • Philip Leach, Rachel Murray & Clara Sandoval, The Duty to Investigate Right to Life Violations across Three Regional Systems: Harmonisation or Fragmentation of International Human Rights Law?
  • Chloe Cheeseman, The Death Penalty as Addressed by Regional and International Human Rights Bodies: Exploring Jurisprudential Cross-Fertilisation and Harmonisation
  • Elizabeth Wicks, International Trends in the Recognition of Abortion Rights
  • Alastair Mowbray, The European Court of Human Rights’ Recourse to External Legal Materials When Interpreting and Applying the Right to Private Life
  • Frans Viljoen, Minority Sexual Orientation as a Challenge to the Harmonised Interpretation of International Human Rights Law
  • Magdalena Forowicz, Concepts of Substantive Gender Equality: Looking for Coherence among the Regional and International Perspectives
  • Rory O’Connell, Judges of the World, United? Collective Aspects of the Right to Work in Regional Human Rights Systems
  • Jacinta Miller, The Influence of International Human Rights Law on the Right to Health Jurisprudence of the European Region
  • David Keane & Joshua Castellino, Is the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination the De Facto Minority Rights Treaty?
  • Aoife Nolan & Ursula Kilkelly, Children’s Rights under Regional Human Rights Law: A Tale of Harmonisation?
  • Dominic McGoldrick, Affording States a Margin of Appreciation: Comparing the European Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
  • Larissa van den Herik & Helen Duffy, Human Rights Bodies and International Humanitarian Law: Common but Differentiated Approaches
  • Françoise J. Hampson, The Use Made by the Organs of the European Convention on Human Rights of Reference to the Views of Other Human Rights Bodies in Addressing the Scope of the Extraterritorial Applicability of the Convention
  • Nadia Bernaz, State Obligations with Regard to the Extraterritorial Activities of Companies Domiciled on their Territories
  • Dinah Shelton, Inherent and Implied Powers of Regional Human Rights Tribunals
  • Simon Walker, International Human Rights Law: Towards Pluralism or Harmony? The Opportunities and Challenges of Coexistence: The View from the UN Treaty Bodies
  • Malcolm D. Evans, Co-Existence and Confidentiality: The Experience of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture
  • Elvira Domínguez-Redondo, Human Rights through the Backdoor: The Contribution of Special Procedures to the Normative Coherence and Contradictions of International Human Rights Law
  • Michael O’Boyle, A European Respect for the Opinions of Mankind?