"This edited collection addresses some of the most important challenges in contemporary human rights law and practice. Its central theme is the linkage between public finance, particularly budget decisions, and the realisation (or not) of economic and social rights. While much a…
Since the introduction of voluntary assisted dying in 2019, a 'new moment' in the governance of life and death has opened up within the Australian context. This new moment demands new questions be asked regarding the regime and its effects in this new era for law, health care an…
By chronicling the continuing contest over the reach, range, and regime of rights, Contracting Human Rights analyzes the way forward in an era of many challenges. This multidisciplinary book contributes to building understanding of the maturation of human rights, from a dissiden…
"This exciting Research Handbook combines practitioner and academic perspectives to provide a comprehensive, cutting edge analysis of economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR), as well as the connection between ESCR and other rights. Offering an authoritative analysis of stand…
Introduction /Oreste Pollicino, Giovanni Maria Riccio, Marco Bassini --'Speaking truth to power' : copyright and the control of speech /Fiona Macmillan --Copyright strengthened by the Court of Justice interpretation of Article 17(2) of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights /Alain…
"This timely and thought-provoking book explores how the protection of copyright in the digital age requires a reconsideration of how this is balanced with other fundamental rights and freedoms. Analysing the impact of the rise of digital technologies and the internet on copyrig…
by Harvey, Colin, Schwartz, Alexander
fromHuman Rights Law in Perspective
This collection examines the role and value of domestic rights instruments in divided and post-conflict societies, approaching the subject from a comparative and theoretical perspective.
"This book re-examines more than 100 years of destructive ethno-religious relations among Armenians, Turks, and Azerbaijanis through the novel lens of collective trauma. The author argues that a focus on embedded, transgenerational collective trauma is essential to achieving mor…
Winner of the 2018 Inner Temple New Authors Book Prize and the 2016 SLS Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship. Damages and Human Rights is a major work on awards of damages for violations of human rights that will be of compelling interest to practitioners, judges …
This book explores four decades of anti-discrimination laws in Australia. The book argues that effective laws protecting against and deterring discrimination are vital for a fair future, and emphasise the theoretical and social contexts that underpin this area of the law. The te…
"This book discusses contemporary accountability and transparency mechanisms by presenting a selection of case studies. The authors deal with various problems connected to controlling public institutions and incumbents' responsibility in state bodies. The work is divided into th…
Rights and rights talk have a long and storied history and have occupied a crucial place in the ideology of liberal legalism. This volume brings together the work of leading scholars to think about the nature, utility and limits of rights. It takes stock of the field, charts its…
Rights and rights talk have a long and storied history and have occupied a crucial place in the ideology of liberal legalism. With the development of Critical Legal Studies in the 1970s and 80s, rights were subject to extensive critique. Yet not long after that critique rights w…
This unique book analyses the impact of international human rights on the concept of gender, demonstrating that gender emerged in the medical study of sexuality and has a complex and broad meaning beyond the sex and gender binaries often assumed by human rights law. The book ill…
The character of the right to a fair trial / Stefan Treschel -- Autonomy and agency in American criminal process / David Alan Sklansky -- Innocence, the burden of proof, and fairness in the criminal trial : revisiting Woolmington v DPP (1935) / Lindsy Farmer -- The right of sile…
This book explores the relationship between law, rights and social mobilisation in Europe, and examines the ways in which legal processes are mobilised by less privileged social actors to advance their rights claims and pursue social change.
"This book investigates the limits of the legitimate role of the state in regulating the human body. It questions whether there is a public interest in issues of bodily autonomy, with particular focus on reproductive choices, end of life choices, sexual autonomy, body modificati…
