International Human Rights Law
Cases, Materials, Commentary
International human rights law has expanded remarkably since the 1990s. It is therefore more important than ever to identify, beyond specific controversies, its deeper structure and the general pattern of evolution. Moreover, it has a logic of its own: though part of international law, it borrows many of its principles from domestic constitutional law. This leading textbook meets both challenges. It has been significantly updated for the new third edition, introducing sections on business and human rights, trade and investment treaties and human rights, and climate change and human rights.
Features include forty new cases from various jurisdictions or expert bodies, and figures offering visual descriptions of the procedures discussed in the text. The questions for discussion have also been systematically updated. The text retains its student-friendly design, and the features which made the previous editions so engaging and accessible, including the concise and critical style, remain. This popular textbook continues to be an essential tool for all students of human rights law.
Olivier De Schutter is Professor at UCLouvain and at SciencesPo. He was the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food between 2008 and 2014 and is currently a member of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2015-2022). A Member of the Global Law School Faculty at New York University, he has been Visiting Professor at a number of institutions, most recently at Columbia University and at Yale University. He has published widely on European and international human rights law, with a specific focus on the relationship between governance and human rights and on economic globalization and human rights. In 2013, he was awarded the prestigious Francqui Prize in the Social Sciences and Humanities, and in 2017 became the first non-American to be awarded the Leadership Award of the James Beard Foundation.
International Human Rights Law
Cases, Materials, Commentary
Third Edition
Olivier De Schutter
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Names: Schutter, Olivier de, author.
Title: International human rights law : cases, materials, commentary / Olivier De Schutter.
Description: Third edition. | Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, [2019] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018057975 | ISBN 9781107063754 (Hardback) | ISBN 9781108463560 (Paperback)
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Contents
Table of Boxes
Table of Figures
Table of Cases
African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights
Centre for Minority Rights Development (Kenya) and Minority Rights Group International on behalf of Endorois Welfare Council v . Kenya, No. 276/2003
Democratic Republic of Congo v . Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda, No. 227/99 AHRLR 19 (ACHPR 2004)
Jawara v . The Gambia, Nos. 147/95 and 149/96 (2000) AHRLR 107 (ACHPR 2000)
Katangese Peoples Congress v . Zaire, No. 75/92 (2000) AHRLR 72 (ACHPR 1995)
Purohit and Moore v . The Gambia, No. 241/2001
The Social and Economic Rights Action Center and the Center for Economic and Social Rights v . Nigeria (Ogoniland case), No. 155/96 (2001) AHRLR 60 (ACHPR 2001)
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, advisory opinion May 2007
Union des Jeunes Avocats/Chad, No. 74/92
African Court On Human And Peoples Rights
Abdoulaye Nikiema, Ernest Zongo, Blaise Ilboudo & Burkinabe Human and Peoples' Rights Movement v. Burkina Faso, Appl. No. 013/2011, judgment of 21 June 2013 (preliminary objections)
Actions pour la protection des droits de l'homme (APDH) v. Cte d'Ivoire, Appl. No. 001/2014, judgment of 18 Nov. 2016 (merits)
African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights v. Libya, Appl. No. 002/2013, judgment of 3 June 2016
African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights v. Kenya (in the case of the Ogiek Community of the Mau Forest), Appl. No. 006/2012, judgment of 26 May 2017
Alex Thomas v. United Republic of Tanzania, Appl. No. 005/2013, judgment of 20 Nov. 2015 (merits)
Mohamed Abubakari v. United Republic of Tanzania, Appl. No. 007/2013, judgment of 3 June 2016
Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza v. Rwanda, Appl. No. 003/2014, Ruling on the effects of the withdrawal of the declaration under Article 34(6) of the Protocol, 3 June 2016
Yogogombaye v . Republic of Senegal Appl. No. 001/2008, judgment of 15 December 2009
Committee Against Torture
Agiza v . Sweden, No. 233/2003
Attia v . Sweden, No. 199/2002
Chipana, Cecilia Rosana Nez v . Venezuela, No. 110/1998
Dadar v . Canada, No. 258/2004
Encarnacion Blanco Abad v . Spain, No. 59/1996
Gerasimov v . Kazakhstan, No. 433/2010
Hajrizi Dzemajl et al. v . Serbia and Montenegro, No. 161/2000
Z. v. Australia, No. 511/2012
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
I.D.G. v. Spain, No. 2/2014
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
R.K.B. v . Turkey, No. 28/2010
L.C. v. Peru, No. 22/2009
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Documentation and Advisory Centre on Racial Discrimination v . Denmark, No. 28/2003
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
H.M. v . Sweden, No. 3/2011
European Commission and Court of Human Rights (Numerical)
1957/332 Lawless v . Ireland (No. 3), judgment of 1 July 1961
