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Non-Regression in International Environmental Law
Publication date: December 14, 2020
This book analyses the emerging concept of ‘non-regression’ as a novel legal principle of international environmental law. In order to do so, it traces the development of related concepts in the framework of international human rights law and advocates their application to international environmental law using a novel approach of comparative law method.Hardback -
European Yearbook on Human Rights 2020
Publication date: December 1, 2020
The European Yearbook on Human Rights brings together renowned scholars, emerging voices and practitioners. Split into parts devoted to recent developments in the European Union, the Council of Europe and the OSCE as well as through reports from the field, the contributions engage with some of the most important human rights issues and developments in Europe.Paperback€95.- -
Culture in the State Reporting Procedure of the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies
Publication date: November 24, 2020
Ever since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 there has been a debate on the issue of universality and cultural diversity. The UN human rights treaty bodies have an important role to play in ensuring a proper balance between safeguarding the universality of the rights, while at the same time leaving room for cultural particularities. This book examines how the UN treaty bodies, in particular the Human Rights Comm...Paperback€95.- -
The Transformative Potential of a Vulnerability Focus in Basic Assistance Policies
Publication date: October 22, 2020
The term ‘vulnerability’ is often used in law and policy to refer to disadvantaged, marginalized or excluded human beings. This book explores how a vulnerability focus in basic assistance policies can contribute to substantive equality and therefore to the realization of universal human rights in the migration context. It concentrates on the potential that such a vulnerability focus can have to mitigate stigmatization and stereotyping and to f...Paperback€99.- -
A Re-examination of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in a Political Society in the Light of the Principle of Human Dignity
Publication date: October 15, 2020
This book investigates what normative justification can be provided for economic, social and cultural rights guaranteed under international law and how this justification can or should impact the State obligations emerging from these rights.Paperback€79.- -
Protecting Trans Rights in the Age of Gender Self-Determination
Publication date: October 9, 2020
This book brings together international experts to discuss questions and challenges relating to the legal articulation of the emerging right to gender self-determination and its consequences for law and society, such as the future of sex/gender registration and the protection of trans persons against discrimination.Paperback€55.- -
Just Memories
Publication date: September 5, 2020
How do memory and remembrance relate to transitional justice that lays emphasis on restoration? What is captured and what is obliterated in individual and collective efforts to come to terms with a violent past? Across this volume consisting of twelve in-depth contributions, the politics of memory in various countries are related to restorative justice under four headings: restoring trust, restoring truth, restoring land and restoring law.Hardback€75.- -
Towards a Regime of Responsibility of Armed Groups in International Law
Publication date: July 2, 2020
Armed groups have played a predominant role in violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law committed in conflict settings. The aim of this book is to examine how the principles of international responsibility could be developed and adjusted to account for armed groups as collective entities.Paperback€75.- -
Trapped in a Religious Marriage
Publication date: June 30, 2020
This book offers a human rights perspective of the phenomenon of marital captivity within Christian, Jewish, Hindu and Muslim communities in both secular and non-secular States.Paperback€85.- -
Vrijheidsbeperkingen in de zorg
Publication date: January 13, 2020
‘Vrijheidsbeperkingen in de zorg’ ontving de Walter Leën Prijs voor sociaal recht 2017-2019 (zie verder hieronder).
Dit boek beschrijft hoe vrijheidsbeperkingen in de geestelijke gezondheidszorg, de zorg voor personen met een handicap en de ouderenzorg geregeld zijn. Het gaat daarbij na of deze regeling aan de mensenrechten voldoet. Drie thema’s staan centraal: de juridische bekwaamheid (de meerderjarige beschermde persoon en ...Hardback€155.-