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Lethal Force, the Right to Life and the ECHR Narratives of Death and Democracy By: Stephen Skinner ISBN: 9781849464062Publicado: 22-08-2019Páginas: 224 In its case law on the use of lethal and potentially lethal force, the European Court of Human Rights declares a fundamental connection between the right to life in …

International Journal of Human Rights Volume 23, Issue 7, 2019 ISSN: 1364-2987, EISSN: 1744-053X @tandfonline @TaylorandFrancisGroup TaylorandFrancis tandfchina taylor-&-francis-group The International Journal of Human Rights covers an exceptionally broad spectrum of human rights issues: human rights and the law, race, religion, gender, children, class, refugees and immigration. In addition to …

Protecting Personal Informationt The Right to Privacy Reconsidered By: Andrea Monti, Raymond Wacks ISBN: 9781509924851Publicado: 30-05-2019Páginas: 192 The concept of privacy has long been confused and incoherent. The right to privacy has been applied promiscuously to an alarmingly wide-ranging assortment of issues including free speech, political consent, abortion, contraception, sexual …

Human Rights and the Environment: Legality, Indivisibility, Dignity and Geography Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law series Edited by James R. May, Professor of Law and Erin Daly, Professor of Law, Widener University Delaware Law School, US ISBN: 9781788111454Publicado: 2019Páginas: 616 eISBN: 9781788111461 Publicado: 2019Páginas: 616 Much has been written, discussed, …

International Journal of Constitutional Law Volume 17, Issue 1, January 2019 ISSN: 1474-2640, EISSN: 1474-2659 @ICONnect_blog iconnectblog.com Published in association with the New York University School of Law, I•CON is dedicated to advancing the study of international and comparative constitutional law in the broadest sense of the terms. I•CON recognizes …

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 …

The ECtHR’s Ilias and Ahmed v. Hungary and Why It Matters The European Court of Human Rights delivered a judgment last Tuesday in the case of Ilias and Ahmed v. Hungary, finding multiple violations of the European Convention as a result of Hungary’s border procedures and its treatment of asylum-seekers. …

UK Supreme Court Decides Smith (No. 2) v. The Ministry of Defence Last week the UK Supreme Court delivered its judgment in Smith (No. 2) v. The Ministy of Defence (judgment; BBC News report). This is a follow-up to the Smith (No. 1) case decided three years ago, with a …

Human Rights: Member State, EU and ECHR Levels of Protection Article 53 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union caused, already at its inception, a hermeneutical conundrum: Nothing in the Charter shall be interpreted as restricting or adversely affecting human rights and fundamental freedoms as recognized, in …

The ECtHR Finds Macedonia Responsible in Connection with Torture by the CIA, but on What Basis? André Nollkaemper is Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam. He directs the project on ‘Shared Responsibility in International Law’ (SHARES); this piece is cross-posted on …

Symposium on ExtraTerritorial Jurisdiction One of the topics that will be taught in any basic course on public international law is “Jurisdiction”. By this is meant the jurisdiction of States and as Rosalyn Higgins explains in her book Problems and Process: International Law and How We Use It, questions of …