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Brems, Eva; Desmet, Ellen --- "Integrated Human Rights in Practice" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) [2017] ELECD 1223

Editor(s): Brems, Eva; Desmet, Ellen

Title: Integrated Human Rights in Practice

Sub-title: Rewriting Human Rights Decisions

Topics: Human Rights

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Date of Publication: 29 September 2017

Number of pages: c 552

ISBN (hard cover): 9781786433794

EISBN: 9781786433800

Abstract/Description:

This book aims to introduce concrete and innovative proposals for an holistic approach to supranational human rights justice through a hands-on legal exercise: the rewriting of decisions of supranational human rights monitoring bodies. The contributing scholars have thus redrafted crucial passages of landmark human rights judgments and decisions, ‘as if human rights law were really one’, borrowing or taking inspiration from developments and interpretations throughout the whole multi-layered human rights protection system. In addition to the rewriting exercise, the contributors have outlined the methodology and/or theoretical framework that guided their approaches and explain how human rights monitoring bodies may adopt an integrated approach to human rights law.

Integrated Human Rights in Practice shows that even within the current fragmented landscape of international human rights law, it is possible to integrate human rights to a significantly higher degree than is generally the case. Redrafted opinions deal with major contemporary issues such as conscientious objection by health service providers, intersectional discrimination of minority women, the rights of persons with disabilities, the rights of indigenous peoples against powerful economic interests, and the human rights impact of austerity measures.

This book’s novel perspective and applied, concrete examples make it an invaluable resource for academics and students as well as judges, lawyers, and treaty body members.


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