Lawyers Beyond Borders - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lawyers Beyond Borders write by Maria Armoudian. This book was released on 2021-09-07. Lawyers Beyond Borders available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite international conventions and human rights declarations, millions of people have suffered and continue to suffer torture, slavery, or violent deaths, with no remedy or recourse. They have fallen, in essence, “below the law,” outside of law’s protection. Often violated by their own governments, sometimes with support from transnational corporations, or nations benefiting from human rights violations, how can these victims find justice? Lawyers Beyond Borders reveals the inner workings of the advances and retreats in the quest for redress and restoration of human rights for those whom international legal-political systems have failed. The process of justice begins in the US, with a handful of human rights lawyers steeped in the American tradition of advancing civil rights through civil litigation. As the civil rights movement gained traction and an ample supply of lawyers, this small cadre turned their attention toward advancing international human rights, via the US legal system. They sought to build another piece of the rights revolution, this time for survivors of egregious human rights violations in faraway lands. These cases were among the most unlikely to be slated for victory: The abuses occurred abroad; the victims are aliens, usually with few, if any, resources; the perpetrators are politically powerful, resourced, and well connected, often members of governments, militaries, or multinational corporations. The legal and political systems’ structures are mostly stacked against these survivors, many who bear the scars of trauma and terror. Lawyers Beyond Borders is about agency. It is about how, in the face of powerful interests and seemingly insurmountable obstacles—political, psychological, economic, geographical, and physical—a small group of lawyers and survivors navigated a terrain of daunting barriers to begin building, case-by-case, new pathways to justice for those who otherwise would have none.
Judging International Human Rights
Judging International Human Rights - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Judging International Human Rights write by Stefan Kadelbach. This book was released on 2019-04-15. Judging International Human Rights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book attempts to establish how courts of general jurisdiction differ from specialized human rights courts in their approach to the implementation and development of international human rights. Why do courts of general jurisdiction face particular problems in relation to the application of international human rights law and why, in other cases, are they better placed than specialized human rights courts to act as guardians of international human rights? At the international level, this volume focusses on the International Court of Justice and courts of regional economic integration organizations in Europe, Latin America and Africa. With regard to the judicial implementation of international human rights and human rights decisions at the domestic level, the contributions analyze the requirements set by human rights treaties and offer a series of country studies on the practice of domestic courts in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. This book follows up on research undertaken by the International Human Rights Law Committee of the International Law Association. It includes the final Committee report as well as contributions by committee members and external experts.
International Human Rights and Local Courts
International Human Rights and Local Courts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook International Human Rights and Local Courts write by Aksel Tømte. This book was released on 2024-04-29. International Human Rights and Local Courts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book addresses the technicalities of how international human rights law can be applied at the domestic level through a case study of the human rights methodology of the Indonesian judiciary. Numerous international human rights treaties have been ratified by States parties all around the world. However, local implementation has proven a difficult task for national authorities with every State struggling to realize rights to varying degrees. This reveals a gap between the standards of human rights as envisaged by the law and those experienced by rights holders at the local level. This work analyses how Indonesian courts interpret and apply human rights. It discusses the position of human rights within specific areas of Indonesian law: constitutional law, criminal law and private law. It analyses how courts have dealt with specific cases within these fields of law. Its key contribution lies in its detailed attention to the role of the Indonesian judiciary in implementing human rights, as well as to the influence of international law, and the role that actors other than the judiciary play in this process. It also incorporates international comparative perspectives. The book will be of particular interest to human rights scholars concerned with national judiciaries’ role in human rights implementation, and to scholars, judges, civil society actors and legal practitioners working with law and human rights in Indonesia.
International Human Rights Litigation in U.S. Courts
International Human Rights Litigation in U.S. Courts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook International Human Rights Litigation in U.S. Courts write by Beth Stephens. This book was released on 1996. International Human Rights Litigation in U.S. Courts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Written by leading human rights litigators and theorists, this treatise offers a comprehensive analysis of human rights litigation in U.S. courts under the Alien Tort Statute and related provisions.
Enforcing International Human Rights in Domestic Courts
Enforcing International Human Rights in Domestic Courts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Enforcing International Human Rights in Domestic Courts write by Benedetto Conforti. This book was released on 2021-09-27. Enforcing International Human Rights in Domestic Courts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The purpose of this book is to explore the ways in which domestic courts are dealing with international human rights issues in their respective jurisdictions. This volume, however, is not limited to offering a comparative overview. It aims principally at identifying the most common obstacles that still hinder the effective adjudication and enforcement of human rights in domestic law. Ultimately, it aspires to suggest judicial models that may help reduce or remove those obstacles, consistently with the principle, recognised in modern constitutions, that national courts are bound to participate in the implementation process of international law.
