International Human Rights: Law, Policy, and Process

David S. Weissbrodt; Fionnuala Ni Aolain; Joan Fitzpatrick; Frank Newman

ISBN 10: 1422411737 / ISBN 13: 9781422411735

Published by LexisNexis, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: International Human Rights: Law, Policy, and Process
• Publisher: LexisNexis
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1422411737
• ISBN 13: 9781422411735
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 4th Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This comprehensive work provides an introduction to human rights law, policy, and process. International Human Rights begins with an overview, then discusses drafting and ratifying treaties, establishing institutions, using procedures for monitoring compliance and responding to gross violations, using adjudicative remedies, applying refugee and international labor law, relating human rights norms to terrorism, and exploring how the causes of violations can be used to improve human rights compliance. The Fourth Edition addresses a number of significant developments in the human rights arena including:

• Emergence of international criminal law as a potential response to crimes against humanity;
• Emergence of the United Nations Security Council as a significant human rights actor and the challenges it faces;
• The role of human rights norms in responding to and regulating state responses to terrorism;
• The capacity of human rights to respond to abuses by corporate actors;
• The ability of human rights to respond to and account for violations committed in the context of ethnic hatred, internal conflict, and intrastate violence; and
• The challenges faced by non-government human rights organizations in the post 9/11 context.

International Human Rights is also accompanied by a comprehensive documentary supplement, Selected International Human Rights Instruments and Bibliography for Research on International Human Rights Law. Professor Weissbrodt provides periodic updates to the casebook on the University of Minnesota Human Rights Library Web site (http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/intlhr).

This book also is available in a three-hole punched, alternative loose-leaf version printed on 8.5 x 11 inch paper with wider margins and with the same pagination as the hardbound book.

About the Authors

The late David Weissbrodt was the Fredrikson & Byron Professor of Law Emeritus and the Regents Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota Law School.

Dorsey & Whitney Professor of Law at University of Minnesota Law School

The late Frank C. Newman, Emeritus, UC Berkeley School of Law

The late Joan Fitzpatrick was Jeffrey & Susan Brotman Professor of Law at the University of Washington School of Law.