Chapter 22 of Marie Breen-Smyth, Ashgate Companion to Political Violence (2012): Within the dominion of counter-terrorism, policy choices can be stark. One must determine in institutional terms whether the response is to be predominantly military or policing and, cutting across that boundary,...

Communities disparately burdened by environmental degradation are increasingly framing their demands for environmental justice in the language of environmental human rights. However, some scholars have expressed skepticism about the environmental human rights project. First, they remind us that...

The universalization of human rights norms and the global liberalization of corporate and commercial endeavor are two especially conspicuous players on the globalization stage. Both, to some extent, rely on the notion of the Rule of Law to promote their ends, though they rely on different...

Education rights cases often devolve into a farce of constitutional brinkmanship played by a miserable cast of reluctant courts and recalcitrant legislatures. Between successive rounds of litigation and tepid legislative fixes, come threats of impeaching judges, closing schools, stripping courts...

In December 2007 the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in its latest Guantaacute;namo Bay cases, Boumediene vs. Bush and Al Odah vs. United States. Interestingly, the argumentation offered in this litigation was almost exclusively domestic - international human rights law did not feature in...

Recent court decisions, for instance in South Africa and Latin America, have held states bound to respect and serve HIV/AIDS patients' human rights to indicated and available medical care. HIV/AIDS is estimated to affect over 36 million people worldwide, including 16.4 million women of...

The author paints with a deliberately broad brush, beginning with a rapid traverse of changing attitudes within the Commonwealth to methods of rights protection. The article then asks why there have been such changes, and discusses, with some reference to the freedom of expression, how those...

This article illustrates how the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) reversed its jurisprudence on adoption by single homosexual individuals, and describes the consequences of this decision within the French legal system

In the United States, equal pay is defined as a basic human right. Salary negotiation and other areas of the hiring process must also be structured within this human rights construct in order to fully achieve equality and its corresponding societal benefits. This Article applies New York City...