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International Human Rights Law

This is a guide to help students researching papers for Prof. Webster's International Human Rights Law course.

Selected Articles on International Human Rights Law

The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights: Mapping Resistance Against a Young Court
posted to SSRN in 2018
Contemporary Challenges to International Human Rights Law and the Role of Human Rights Education
41 De Jure 207 (2011)
Horizontal Human Rights Law
102 Am. J. Int'l L. 1 (2008)
Human Rights Protection by International Courts -- What Role for the East African Court of Justice?
26 African J. Int'l & Comp. L. 108 (2018)
International Corporate Obligations, Human Rights, and the Urbaser Standard: Breaking New Ground
36 B.U. Int'l L.J. 87 (2018)
An Introduction to the History of Human Rights Law
posted on SSRN in 2007
The Long Arm of the Law: Giving Victims of Human Rights Abuses Their Day in Court
92(2) Foreign Affairs 16 (2013)
The North and South Divide in the Practice of International Humanitarian Law...
11(1) J. Pol. & L. 79 (2018)
Protecting Human Rights and Constitutional Law in Bicameral Systems
11(1) J. Pol. & L. 17 (2018).
The Protection of Human Rights and International Law: Justice and Injustice in the Age of Human Rights
chapter 5 in The Politics of International Law and International Justice (2013)
Protection of Refugees Under Human Rights Law
posted to SSRN in 2018
Rethinking the Impact of the Inter-American Human Rights System
posted to SSRN in 2018
Subsidiarity in International Human Rights Law -- What Is Subsidiary about Human Rights
61 Am. J. Juris. 69 (2016)
Syria: A Case Study in International Law
85 U. Cin. l. Rev. 185 (2017)
Vulnerability on Trial: Protection of Migrant Children's Rights in the Jurisprudence of International Human Rights Courts
36 B.U. Int'l L.J. 55 (2018)