This comprehensive Commentary provides the first fully up-to-date analysis and interpretation of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings. It offers a concise yet thorough article-by-article guide to the Convention’s anti-trafficking standards and corresponding human rights obligations. This Commentary includes an analysis of each article’s drafting his…
The Council of Europe and the European Union (EU) have not developed ad hoc legal rules or hard law instruments specifically aimed at protecting the rights of people with autism. At European regional level, the special situation and needs of individuals with autism find recognition and protection within the wider legal framework concerning the rights of persons with disabilities as well as with…
Through gaining lessons from the doctrine of constitutionality control, the book deals principally with conventionality control achieved by judicial adjudicators. This monograph fills the gap in comparative international human rights law by analysing the practice of conventionality control in Europe and Latin America. Based on the empirical data, the author normatively envisions a ‘trapeziumâ…
New technological innovations offer significant opportunities to promote and protect human rights. At the same time, they also pose undeniable risks. In some areas, they may even be changing what we mean by human rights. The fact that new technologies are often privately controlled raises further questions about accountability and transparency and the role of human rights in regulating these ac…
Armed conflict, today, has diverged from war as it was known in generations past, and from this, has tested the means by which conflicts and violence are regulated. Written with an eye to a region plagued by such conflicts, War and Law in the Islamic World examines the origins and roles that two distinct systems of governance – Islamic law and international humanitarian law – have played in…
This book provides a valuable restatement of the current law of armed conflict regarding hostilities in a diverse range of contexts: outer space, cyber operations, remote and autonomous weapons, undersea systems and devices, submarine cables, civilians participating in unmanned operations, military objectives by nature, civilian airliners, destruction of property, surrender, search and rescue, …
The 2006 United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD) is the first human rights treaty to explicitly acknowledge the right to education for persons with disabilities. In order to realize this right, the convention’s Article 24 mandates state parties to ensure inclusive education systems that overcome outright exclusion as well as segregation in special educat…
Sangat disayangkan bahwa gagasan bahwa Afrika berkontribusi pada hukum internasional, dan selalu demikian, tetap (pada tahun 2022) sebagian besar merupakan catatan tambahan, pendekatan tambahan, daripada sesuatu yang diterima secara luas dan mengakar kuat. Hal ini menyebabkan jeda bahwa ini juga berlaku di Afrika sendiri. Menjelajahi pendekatan Afrika terhadap hukum internasional: Esai untuk me…
Apakah Hukum Internasional benar-benar hukum adalah salah satu pertanyaan menjengkelkan yang masih ada. Pendekatan tiga pilar Prof. Mwenda untuk melihat Hukum Internasional adalah kerangka kerja konseptual yang sangat berguna, pada saat yang sama, melambangkan sifat disiplin yang dapat ditempa. Analisis tersebut menunjukkan ketika Negara memperhatikan hukum internasional, mengapa mereka merasa …
Gathering an interdisciplinary range of cutting-edge scholars, this book addresses legal constitutions of value. Global value production and transnational value practices that rely on exploitation and extraction have left us with toxic commons and a damaged planet. Against this situation, the book examines law’s fundamental role in institutions of value production and valuation. Utilising pat…