Archivo de Etiquetas: Council of Europe

Research Handbook on International Law and Social Rights International Law Series Edited by Christina Binder, Jane A. Hofbauer, Department for Public Law and International Law, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany, Flávia Piovesan, Faculty of Law, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil, Amaya Úbeda de Torres, Senior Lawyer, Council of Europe …

Human Rights and 21st Century Challenges Poverty, Conflict, and the Environment Edited by Dapo Akande, Jaakko Kuosmanen, Helen McDermott, and Dominic Roser ISBN: 9780198824770 (Hardcover)Publicado: 18 March 2020Páginas: 400 The world is faced with significant and interrelated challenges in the 21st century which threaten human rights in a number of …

The Right to Strike in International Law By: Jeffrey Vogt, Janice Bellace, Lance Compa, K D Ewing, John Hendy QC, Klaus Lörcher, Tonia Novitz ISBN: 9781509933556Publicado: 19-03-2020Páginas: 272 This monograph was originally developed as a direct response to the claim made by members of the ‘Employers Group’ at the 2012 …

The United Nations Convention Against Torture and its Optional Protocol Second Edition Edited by Manfred Nowak, Moritz Birk, and Giuliana Monina ISBN: 9780198846178 (Hardcover)Publicado: 19 February 2020Páginas: 1360 The prohibition of torture – the right to physical and mental integrity – is guaranteed in the strongest terms under international law. …

Protecting the Third Pole Transplanting International Law Simon Marsden, Professor and Chair in Energy Law, School of Law, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Stirling, UK ISBN: 978 1 78643 740 2Publicado: 2019Páginas: 328 eISBN: 978 1 78643 741 9 Publicado: 2019Páginas: 328 This highly topical book considers the …

The International & Comparative Law Quarterly (ICLQ) publishes papers on public and private international law, comparative law, human rights and European law, and is one of the world's leading journals covering all these areas. Since it was founded in 1952 the ICLQ has built a reputation for publishing innovative and original articles within the various fields, and also spanning them, exploring the connections between the subject areas. It offers both academics and practitioners wide topical coverage, without compromising rigorous editorial standards. The ICLQ attracts scholarship of the highest standard from around the world, which contributes to the maintenance of its truly international frame of reference. The 'Shorter Articles and Notes' section enables the discussion of contemporary legal issues and 'Book Reviews' highlight the most important new publications in these various fields. The ICLQ is the journal of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, and is published by Cambridge University Press

The European Convention on Human Rights: the Draft Copenhagen Declaration and the Threat to the European Court by Roisin Pillay [Róisín Pillay is Director of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) Europe Programme.]  The European Court of Human Rights is once more facing a political challenge to its role, in …

An Appraisal of the Council of Europe’s Draft European Rules on the Conditions of Administrative Detention of Migrants In the last decade, a growing momentum has developed to end immigration detention. This momentum has two dimensions. First, that certain migrants, such as children, should never be detained as they are …

Turkey’s Derogation from Human Rights Treaties – An Update In an earlier post of 27 July I provided a first assessment of Turkey’s declared derogation from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and an assessment what kind of measures could be expected, as derogations both from the ECHR and …

Are Human Rights Hurting Migrants at Sea? Every year hundreds of thousands of irregular migrants, including asylum seekers and refugees, cross the Mediterranean Sea to enter Europe. More than 200.000 are thought to have crossed in 2014, reaching the coasts of Italy, Greece, Spain, Malta and Cyprus. The reasons for …

Boyle and Crawford on Scottish Independence Last month, Joseph Weiler’s post on Catalonian independence and the European Union triggered a lively discussion here on EJIL!Talk (including Nico Krisch’s reply). Yesterday’s publication by the British government of a legal opinion by Alan Boyle of the University of Edinburgh and James Crawford of the …