Regional Protection of Human Rights: Documentary Supplement, 2nd Edition

• This is the first book to fully integrate a discussion of international human rights across regional systems The material is structured around broad themes, substantive rights, and procedural mechanisms The thematic organizations of Regional Protection of Human Rights is consistent with the way international human rights research, litigation, and scholarship is conducted. More and more, the systems work across disciplines. This book enables the reader to track and evaluate this process.
• Unmatched breadth: this book features more recent materials and more up-to-date cases than any other compendium on international human rights law
• Selling point: This is the first book to fully integrate a discussion of international human rights across regional systems.
• The thematic organizations of Regional Protection of Human Rights is consistent with the way international human rights research, litigation, and scholarship is conducted. More and more, the systems work across disciplines. This book enables the reader to track and evaluate this process.
• Unmatched breadth: this book features more recent materials and more up-to-date cases than any other compendium on international human rights law

What role do human rights play in the development of regional organizations? What human rights obligations do states assume upon joining regional bodies? This work is the first text of its kind devoted to the European, Inter-American and African systems for the protection of human rights. It illustrates how international human rights law is interpreted and implemented across international organizations and offers examples of political, economic, social problems and legal issues to emphasize the significant impact of international human rights law institutions on the constitutions, law, policies, and societies of different regions.

Regional Protection of Human Rights provides readers with access to the basic documents of each legal system and their inter-relationships, enabling readers to apply those documents to ever-changing global situations, and alerting them to the dynamic nature of regional human rights law and institutions. The jurisprudence of the European and Inter-American Courts and decisions of the Inter-American and African Commissions are emphasized, including decisions on the interpretation and application of various human rights, procedural requirements and remedies. Prospects for regional systems in the Middle East and Asia are also discussed. The relevant basic texts are reproduced in a documentary supplement.

In addition to serving as a text for courses on human rights law, the book will be useful for courses in international law, international relations, and political science. It is also be a helpful resource for lawyers and policy-makers concerned with the protection of human rights.

Readership: Professors and students (upper division international relations courses and related law school courses). Policy makers, human rights activists, and scholars.