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- A unique and practical guide to remedies available under international law for human and civil rights violations
- The only work to cover remedies in all international fora
- Provides comprehensive coverage of an area of increasing practical and academic importance
- The First Edition was Winner of the ASIL Certificate of Merit 2000
This fully revised and updated new edition of Remedies in International Human Rights Law provides a comprehensive treatment of remedies for human rights violations and reviews the jurisprudence of international tribunals on these violations. It provides a theoretical framework and a practical guide for lawyers, judges, and academics interested in human rights law. This edition also incorporates a new chapter on historical injustices.
All the cases of the Inter-American and European Courts of Human Rights are included, as well as decisions of the African and Inter-American Commissions on Human Rights, UN bodies, the European Court of Justice, international administrative tribunals, and national courts applying human rights law.
Introduction
Part I The Conceptual and Historical Framework
1: The Development of International Human Rights Law
2: Theories of Remedies
3: Remedies in National Law
4: Reparations in the Law of State Responsibility for Injury to Aliens
Part II The Institutional Framework
5: International Institutions and Tribunals
6: Procedural Issues
Part III Jurisprudence and Practice
7: Declaratory Judgments
8: Compensation
9: Punitive or Exemplary Damages
10: Non-monetary Remedies
11: Costs and Fees
12: Gross and Systematic Violations
13: Historical Injustices
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Dinah Shelton, Dinah Shelton is Patricia Roberts Harris Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School in Washington D.C. and a member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law.
Review(s) from previous edition
"Review(s) from previous edition
"... a valuable overview of the law and practice governing remedies ... urges litigants to show greater attention to their requests for remedies - a task that will unquestionably be far more feasible with the publication of this book. .. the book is a valuable resource. Indeed, because of Shelton's comprehensive approach and her important, well-documented conclusions, the book will undoubtedly change the international discourse on the problem of providing remedies for human rights violations. -The American Journal of International Law, Vol. 95, 2001
"'...the greatest strength of this book lies in its ablility to digest a hugely disparate range of remedial jurisprudence and present it in a fashion that is not only accessible, but which is of such detail as to be most useful for academics, practitioners, and students." - Chris Blegy Cambridge Law Journal
Review(s) from previous edition
"... a valuable overview of the law and practice governing remedies ... urges litigants to show greater attention to their requests for remedies - a task that will unquestionably be far more feasible with the publication of this book. .. the book is a valuable resource. Indeed, because of Shelton's comprehensive approach and her important, well-documented conclusions, the book will undoubtedly change the international discourse on the problem of providing remedies for human rights violations. -The American Journal of International Law, Vol. 95, 2001
Review(s) from previous edition
"this book will be of great interest to anyone, practitioners and academics alike, with an interest in human rights law. - Helene Lambert, Int. & Comparative law Quarterly, Vol.49, Oct 2000.
