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Corporations and Transnational Human Rights Litigation
Since the mid-1980s,beginning with the unsuccessful Union Carbide litigation in the USA, litigants have been exploring ways of holding multinational corporations [MNCs] liable for …
Governing (Through) Rights
Taking a critical attitude of dissatisfaction towards rights, the central premise of this book is that rights are technologies of governmentality. They are a regulating discourse …
Collective Trauma and the Armenian Genocide
In this pathbreaking study, Pamela Steiner deconstructs the psychological obstacles that have prevented peaceful settlements to longstanding issues. The book re-examines more than …
Children’s Socio-Economic Rights, Democracy And The Courts
This book is concerned with children's economic and social rights (sometimes referred to simply as children's social rights). Despite increased academic interest in both children's …
The Development of Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights by the European Court of Human Rights
During the last thirty years the European Court of Human Rights has been developing,at an expanding pace, positive obligations under the European Convention. This monograph seeks …
Discrimination, Equality and the Law
This monograph explores some of the conceptual questions which underpin the legal disputes which arise in relation to equality and discrimination. Among these are questions about …
The Role of National Human Rights Institutions at the International and Regional Levels
National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs), defined by the UN as bodies established to promote and protect human rights, have increased in number since the General Assembly adopted …
Property and Human Rights in a Global Context
Property as a human rights concern is manifested through its incorporation in international instruments and as a subject of the law through property-related cases considered by …
Proportionality Under the UK Human Rights Act
The principle of proportionality has long been the key mechanism in Europe for deciding whether state action has encroached on human rights. Prior to the UK's adoption of the Human …
Law and Islamic Dress
This book conceptualises European Court of Human Rights’ judgments on Islamic dress as manifestations of the fascist impulse in modern human rights law. The author argues that …