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Courting failure: when are international criminal courts likely to be believed by local audiences? (2020)
Book Chapter
Milanovic, M. (2020). Courting failure: when are international criminal courts likely to be believed by local audiences?. In K. J. Heller, F. Megret, S. Nouwen, J. Ohlin, & D. Robinson (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of international criminal law. Oxford University Press

The primary role of international criminal courts and tribunals is to punish those deserving of punishment. But beyond dispensing individualized justice, the question still remains whether such tribunals can also help deeply traumatized and divided s... Read More about Courting failure: when are international criminal courts likely to be believed by local audiences?.

Understanding nuclear deterrence within the international constitutional architecture (2019)
Book Chapter
White, N. D. (2019). Understanding nuclear deterrence within the international constitutional architecture. In J. Black-Branch, & D. Fleck (Eds.), Nuclear Non-Proliferation in International Law - Volume V - Legal Challenges for Nuclear Security and Deterrence. T.M.C. Asser Press

Once they were created, and scientific knowledge spread, it has proved very difficult to remove nuclear weapons from the international security landscape. However, if the broader international constitutional architecture, which includes the UN Charte... Read More about Understanding nuclear deterrence within the international constitutional architecture.

The Establishment, Change, and Expansion of Jurisdiction Through Treaties (2019)
Book Chapter
Kritsiotis, D. (2019). The Establishment, Change, and Expansion of Jurisdiction Through Treaties. In The Oxford Handbook of Jurisdiction in International Law (251-299). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198786146.003.0012

This chapter studies the insufficiency of the so-called traditional principles of jurisdiction—territoriality, nationality, protection, universality, and passive personality—when set against jurisdictional provisions of treaties and in customary inte... Read More about The Establishment, Change, and Expansion of Jurisdiction Through Treaties.

Criminal Law In Auschwitz (2019)
Book Chapter
Fraser, D. (2019). Criminal Law In Auschwitz. In Ideology and Criminal Law: Fascist, National Socialist and Authoritarian Regimes (33-57). Hart Publishing

This chapter, through the lens of a biographical study of Nazi lawyer, SS Judge Konrad Morgen, esatablishes the ways in which "law" continued to exist in National Socialist Germany. Morgen investigated and prosecuted crimes committed by SS officers... Read More about Criminal Law In Auschwitz.

Mental disability, the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, and the Sustainable Development Goals (2019)
Book Chapter
Bartlett, P. (2019). Mental disability, the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, and the Sustainable Development Goals. In L. Davidson (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of International Development, Mental Health and Wellbeing. Routledge

Since Winterwerp v the Netherlands in 1979, the European Court of Human Rights and, later, the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture, have been developing law and policy on human rights and mental disability (taken in this chapter to inclu... Read More about Mental disability, the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, and the Sustainable Development Goals.

Remedies for Breaches of Rights to Light: Averting a Tragedy of the Anticommons (2019)
Book Chapter
Rotherham, C. (2019). Remedies for Breaches of Rights to Light: Averting a Tragedy of the Anticommons. In B. McFarlane, & S. Agnew (Eds.), Modern Studies in Property Law, Volume 10 (145-166). Hart Publishing

An occupier who enjoys light through a window in England, Wales or Northern Ireland for 20 years acquires an easement, the breach of which will amount to a nuisance. While other common law jurisdictions inherited the English law on ‘ancient lights’,... Read More about Remedies for Breaches of Rights to Light: Averting a Tragedy of the Anticommons.

Disaster Risk Reduction, the International Federation of the Red Cross, and Emergency Health for Women in Nepal 2015 (2019)
Book Chapter
Shucksmith-Wesley, C. (2019). Disaster Risk Reduction, the International Federation of the Red Cross, and Emergency Health for Women in Nepal 2015. In K. L. Samuel, . M. Aronsson-Storrier, & K. Nakjavani Bookmiller (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Disaster Risk Reduction and International Law (405-421). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108564540

The European Consensus Doctrine and the ECtHR Quest for Public Confidence (2019)
Book Chapter
Bassok, O. (2019). The European Consensus Doctrine and the ECtHR Quest for Public Confidence. In P. Kapotas, & V. P. Tzevelekos (Eds.), Building Consensus on European Consensus: Judicial Interpretation of Human Rights in Europe and Beyond (236-257). Cambridge University Press

Overview: Human Rights (2018)
Book Chapter
Sargeant, C. (2018). Overview: Human Rights. In The UK Supreme Court Yearbook, Volume 6 - Legal Year 2014-2015. Appellate Press

Children's economic and social rights (2018)
Book Chapter
Nolan, A. (2019). Children's economic and social rights. In U. Kilkelly, & T. Liefaard (Eds.), International Human Rights of Children (239-258). Springer Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4184-6_10

Recent years have seen a growing understanding of the relationship between poverty and human rights, an explosion in awareness of the status of children as right-holders, and increasing linkages being made between human rights and child poverty in th... Read More about Children's economic and social rights.

Autonomous and collective sanctions in the international legal order (2018)
Book Chapter
White, N. D. (2018). Autonomous and collective sanctions in the international legal order. In Italian yearbook of international law 27 (2017). Brill

The UK government is currently proposing the enactment of a “Sanctions Act” upon the UK’s withdrawal from the EU in 2019, embodying a right to impose “autonomous sanctions” against other states and non-state actors, on the basis that the UK will no l... Read More about Autonomous and collective sanctions in the international legal order.

Development Aid Procurement & the UNGPs on Business & Human Rights: challenges and opportunities to move towards ‘the new frontier of Buying Justice’ (2018)
Book Chapter
LA CHIMIA, A. (2018). Development Aid Procurement & the UNGPs on Business & Human Rights: challenges and opportunities to move towards ‘the new frontier of Buying Justice’. In G. Quinot, & S. Williams-Elegbe (Eds.), Procurement Regulation for 21st century Africa (31-78). Juta Law

This chapter engages with the Procurement and Business and Human Rights debate focusing on one specific sector of procurement that has been, thus far, neglected by both human rights and procurement experts, namely development aid procurement, i.e. th... Read More about Development Aid Procurement & the UNGPs on Business & Human Rights: challenges and opportunities to move towards ‘the new frontier of Buying Justice’.