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Books

  • Alston P (ed) Human Rights Law (1996) New York University Press
  • Alston P & Robinson T (eds) Human Rights and Development: Towards Mutual , Reinforcement (2005) New York University Press
  • Alston, Philip, ed. Non-State Actors and Human Rights. Oxford University Press, USA, 2005.
  • Alston, Philip, and James Crawford, eds. The Future of UN Human Rights Treaty Monitoring. Cambridge University Press, 2000.
  • Alston, Philip, and Frederic Megret, eds. The United Nations and Human Rights: A Critical Appraisal. Second Edition. Oxford University Press, 2014.
  • Amerasinghe C Local Remedies in International Law (1990) (Cambridge)
  • Annan, Kofi. The Circle of Empowerment: Twenty-five Years of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women. Edited by Hanna Schopp-Schilling and Cees Flinterman. The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2007.
  • Ananaba P Essential Principles of Nigerian Law (2002) (Agbo Areo Pub)
  • Ankumah E The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights: Practice and Procedure (1996) (Martinus Nijhoff Pub)
  • Bassiouni, M. Cherif, and William A. Schabas, eds. New Challenges for the UN Human Rights Machinery: What Future for the UN Treaty Body System and the Human Rights Council Procedures?Intersentia, 2011.
  • Bayefsky, Anne Fruma. How to Complain to the UN Human Rights Treaty System. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2003.
  • Bornstein, Erica, and Peter Redfield. Forces of Compassion: Humanitarianism Between Ethics and Politics. Edited by Erica Bornstein and Peter Redfield. SAR Press, 2011.
  • Brysk, Alison. Global Good Samaritans: Human Rights as Foreign Policy. Oxford University Press, USA, 2009.
  • Brysk, Alison, and Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, eds. From Human Trafficking to Human Rights: Reframing Contemporary Slavery. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
  • Butler, Clark, ed. Child Rights: The Movement, International Law, and Opposition. Purdue University Press, 2012.
  • Calhoun, Craig. Nations Matter: Culture, History and the Cosmopolitan Dream. 1st ed. Routledge, 2007.
  • Cassese, The Late Antonio. Realizing Utopia: The Future of International Law. Oxford University Press, USA, 2012.
  • Nouwen, Sarah M. H: Complementarity in the Line of Fire: The Catalyzing effect of the International Court on Uganda and Sudan. Cambridge University Press (Forthcoming)
  • Coomans, F., and Menno Tjeerd Kamminga. Extraterritorial Application of Human Rights Treaties. Intersentia nv, 2004.
  • Crawford, James. The Future of UN Human Rights Treaty Monitoring. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
  • Crawford, James, and Martti Koskenniemi, eds. The Cambridge Companion to International Law. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
  • Dembour, Marie-Bénédicte. Who Believes in Human Rights?: Reflections on the European Convention. 1st ed. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
  • Dembour, Marie-Bénédicte, and Tobias Kelly, eds. Paths to International Justice: Social and Legal Perspectives. 1st ed. Cambridge University Press, 2007.
  • Douzinas, Costas. Human Rights and Empire: The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism. New edition. Routledge-Cavendish, 2007.
  • ———. The End of Human Rights: Critical Legal Thought at the Turn of the Century. Hart Publishing, 2000.
  • Egan, Suzanne. The UN Human Rights Treaty System: Law and Procedure. Bloomsbury Professional, 2011.
  • Fassin, Didier, and Mariella Pandolfi, eds. Contemporary States of Emergency: The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions. Zone Books, 2010.
  • Freedman, Rosa. The United Nations Human Rights Council: A Critique and Early Assessment. Routledge, 2013.
  • Freeman, Marsha A., Christine Chinkin, and Beate Rudolf. The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women: A Commentary. Oxford University Press, USA, 2012.
  • Garsten, Christina, and Monica Lindh De Montoya, eds. Transparency in a New Global Order: Unveiling Organizational Visions. Edward Elgar Pub, 2008.
  • Gearty, Conor. Liberty and Security. Polity Press, 2013.
  • Gearty, Conor, and Costas Douzinas, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights Law. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
  • Glasius, Marlies. “Do International Criminal Courts Require Democratic Legitimacy?” European Journal of International Law23, no. 1 (February 1, 2012): 43–66. doi:10.1093/ejil/chr104.
  • Goodale, Mark, ed. Human Rights at the Crossroads. Oxford University Press, USA, 2012.
  • Goodhart, Michael, ed. Human Rights: Politics and Practice. Oxford University Press, USA, 2009.
  • Goodhart, Michael. Human Rights: Politics and Practice. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, USA, 2013.
  • Hafner-Burton, Emilie M. Forced to Be Good: Why Trade Agreements Boost Human Rights. Cornell University Press, 2009.
  • ———. Making Human Rights a Reality. Princeton University Press, 2013.
  • Halme-Tuomisaari, Miia. Human Rights in Action: Learning Expert Knowledge.Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, 2010.
  • Higgins, Rosalyn. Themes and Theories: Selected Essays, Speeches and Writings in International Law. Oxford University Press, USA, 2009.
  • Hollis, Duncan B. The Oxford Guide to Treaties. Oxford University Press, USA, 2012.
  • Hopgood, Stephen. Keepers of the Flame: Understanding Amnesty International. annotated edition. Cornell University Press, 2006.
  • Joachim, Jutta M. Agenda Setting, the UN, and NGOs: Gender Violence and Reproductive Rights. Georgetown University Press, 2007.
  • Jolly, Richard, Louis Emmerij, Dharam Ghai, and Frédéric Lapeyre. UN Contributions to Development Thinking and Practice. Indiana University Press, 2004.
  • Joseph, Sarah, Jenny Schultz, and Melissa Castan. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Cases, Materials, and Commentary. Oxford University Press, 2000.
  • ———. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Cases, Materials, and Commentary. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, USA, 2005.
  • Seibert-Fohr, Anja ed: Judicial Independence in Transition. Springer-lit, 2012.
  • Kalin, Walter, and Jorg Kunzli. The Law of International Human Rights Protection. Oxford University Press, USA, 2010.
  • Kamminga, Menno T., and Martin Scheinin, eds. The Impact of Human Rights Law on General International Law. Oxford University Press, USA, 2009.
  • Keller, Helen, and Geir Ulfstein, eds. UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies: Law and Legitimacy. 1st ed. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
  • Kelly, Tobias. This Side of Silence: Human Rights, Torture, and the Recognition of Cruelty. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
  • Koskenniemi, Martti. From Apology to Utopia: The Structure of International Legal Argument. Cambridge University Press, 2005.

 

  • ———. The Politics of International Law. Hart Publishing, 2011.
  • Krommendijk, Jasper. Just “A Little UN Committee” or Important Policy Driver? The Impact and Effectiveness of the CEDAW Committee in New Zealand. SSRN Scholarly Paper. Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network, February 22, 2013. http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=2216605.
  • ———. “The (Non) Implementation of Recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in the Netherlands Explained.” Perspectives on European Politics and Society13, no. 4 (2012): 462–479.
  • Kruckenberg, Lena J. The UNreal World of Human Rights: An Ethnography of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Nomos Publishers, 2012.
  • Langford, Malcolm, Wouter Vandenhole, Martin Scheinin, and Willem van Genugten, eds. Global Justice, State Duties: The Extraterritorial Scope of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in International Law. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
  • ———. Global Justice, State Duties: The Extraterritorial Scope of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in International Law. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
  • Mattei, Ugo, and Laura Nader. Plunder: When the Rule of Law Is Illegal. 1st ed. Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.
  • Mazower, Mark. No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations. First Edition. Princeton University Press, 2009.
  • Megret, Frederic. The United Nations and Human Rights: A Critical Appraisal. Edited by Philip Alston. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, USA, 2012.
  • Merry, Sally Engle. Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice. University Of Chicago Press, 2006.
  • Mertus, Julie. The United Nations and Human Rights: A Guide for a New Era. Routledge, 2009.
  • Möller, Jakob Th. International Human Rights Monitoring Mechanisms: Essays in Honour of Jakob Th. Möller. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009.
  • Möller, Jakob Th, and Alfred de Zayas. United Nations Human Rights Committee Case Law 1977-2008: A Handbook. 1st ed. Engel, Norbert P, 2009.
  • Mosse, David, ed. Adventures in Aidland: The Anthropology of Professionals in International Development. Berghahn Books, 2011.
  • Mosse, David. Cultivating Development: An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice. 1st Edition. Pluto Press, 2004.
  • Mosse, David, and David Lewis, eds. The Aid Effect: Giving and Governing in International Development. Pluto Press, 2005.
  • Moyn, Samuel. The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History. Reprint. Belknap Press, 2012.
  • Nash, Kate. “Human Rights, Movements and Law: On Not Researching Legitimacy.” Sociology46, no. 5 (October 1, 2012): 797–812. doi:10.1177/0038038512451528.
  • ———. The Cultural Politics of Human Rights. 1st ed. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
  • Niezen, Ronald. Public Justice and the Anthropology of Law. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
  • Normand, Roger, and Sarah Zaidi. Human Rights at the UN: The Political History of Universal Justice. Indiana University Press, 2008.
  • O’Flaherty, Michael. Human Rights and the UN: Practice Before the Treaty Bodies. 1st ed. Springer, 2002.
  • O’Flaherty, Michael, ed. The Human Rights Field Operation: Law, Theory and Practice. New edition. Ashgate Pub Co, 2007.
  • O’Flaherty, Michael, and George Ulrich. The Professional Identity of the Human Rights Field Officer. Edited by Michael O’Flaherty and George Ulrich. Ashgate, 2010.
  • O’Flaherty, Zdzislaw Kedzia, Amrei Müller, and George Ulrich Michael. Human Rights Diplomacy: Contemporary Perspectives. Martinus Nijhoff. 2011.Martinus Nijhoff, 2011.
  • Odello, Marco, and Francesco Seatzu. The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: The Law, Process and Practice. Routledge, 2012.
  • Oestreich, Joel E. Power and Principle: Human Rights Programming in International Organizations. Georgetown University Press, 2007.
  • Orford, Anne. International Authority and the Responsibility to Protect. 1st ed. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
  • Piccone, Ted. Catalysts for Change: How the U.N.’s Independent Experts Promote Human Rights. Brookings Institution Press, 2012.
  • Rodley, Nigel S. “United Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies and Special Procedures of the Commission on Human Rights–Complementarity or Competition?” Human Rights Quarterly25, no. 4 (2003): 882–908. doi:10.1353/hrq.2003.0051.
  • Scheinin, Martin. “The Proposed Optional Protocol to the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Blueprint for UN Human Rights Treaty Body Reform—Without Amending the Existing Treaties.” Human Rights Law Review6, no. 1 (January 1, 2006): 131–142. doi:10.1093/hrlr/ngi035.
  • Shelton, Dinah, ed. Commitment and Compliance: The Role of Non-Binding Norms in the International Legal System. Oxford University Press, USA, 2003.
  • Simmons, Beth A. Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic Politics. 1st ed. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
  • Stone, Matthew, Illan rua Wall, and Costas Douzinas, eds. New Critical Legal Thinking: Law and the Political. Birkbeck Law Press, 2012.
  • Tyagi, Yogesh. The UN Human Rights Committee: Practice and Procedure. 1st ed. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
  • Vandenhole, Wouter. The Procedures Before the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies: Divergence or Convergence?Intersentia, 2004.
  • Waldorf, Lars. “Anticipating the Past Transitional Justice and Socio-Economic Wrongs.” Social & Legal Studies21, no. 2 (June 1, 2012): 171–186.
  • Weller, Marc. Universal Minority Rights: A Commentary on the Jurisprudence of International Courts and Treaty Bodies. Oxford University Press, USA, 2008.
  • Williams, Paul D., ed. Security Studies: An Introduction. 2nd ed. Routledge, 2012.
  • Wilson, Richard A. The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Legitimizing the Post-Apartheid State. Cambridge University Press, 2001.
  • Wilson, Richard Ashby, and Richard D. Brown, eds. Humanitarianism and Suffering: The Mobilization of Empathy. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
  • Young, Kirsten A. The Law and Process of the U.N. Human Rights Committee. Hotei Publishing, 2002.