International human rights law Part 11

 

International Law Limits on Investor Liability in Human Rights Litigation
Michael D. Ramsey
Harvard International Law Journal
Volume 50, Number 2, Summer 2009 p.271

LABOR OF LOVE: USING INTERNATIONAL Labor law TO ACHIEVE HUMAN RIGHTS FOR WOMEN SEX WORKERS IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Tiffany Comprés
Georgetown Journal of International Law
Volume 40, Number 3, Spring 2009 p.1027

United Nations Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries as a Means of Violating Human Rights and Impeding the Exercise of the Rights of People to Self Determination & the Wisconsin International Law Society: Model Law for the Regulation of Private Military and Security Companies
Jose L. Gomez del Prado and Margaret Maffai
Wisconsin International Law Journal
Volume 26, Number 4, Winter 2009 p.1078

Becker, P. & Wetzell R. F. (eds.), Criminals and their Scientists: the History of Criminology in International Perspective; Bellany, Alastair, The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England News Culture and the Overbury Affair 1603-1660; Holzman-Gazit, Yifat, Land Expropriation in Israel; Kennedy, David, Of Law and War; Okafor, Obiora Chinedu, The African Human Rights System: activist forces and International institutions ; Sloth-Nielsen, Julia (Ed.), Children’s Rights in Africa, A Legal Perspective; Xanthaki, Alexandra, Indigenous Rights and United Nations Standards; Ziccardi Capaldo, Giuliana, The Pillars of Global Law; Armstrong, D. & Farrell, T. & H. Lambert, International Law and International Relations, and Simmons, B. A. & Steinberg, R. H. (eds), International Law and International Relations
Cambrian Law Review
Volume 39, 2008 p.95

International human rights law and the Charter
William A. Schabas
Supreme Court Law Review
Volume 45, 2009 p.297

The Universal Declaration and Developments in the Enforcement of International Human Rights in Domestic Law
Michael Van Alstine
Maryland Journal of International Law
Volume 24, 2009 p.63

International Human Rights and the International Law Project: The Revolving Door of Academic Discourse and Practitioner Politics
Maxwell O. Chibundu
Maryland Journal of International Law
Volume 24, 2009 p.309

The Democratic Legitimacy of International Human Rights Law
Jamie Mayerfeld
Indiana International & Comparative Law Review
Volume 19, Number 1, 2009 p.49

Democracy and International Human Rights Law
John McGinnis & Ilya Somin
Notre Dame Law Review
Volume 84, Number 4, April 2009 p.1739

ROSS, WOMEN’S HUMAN RIGHTS: THE INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW CASEBOOK
Mary Pat Treuthart
Pace Law Review
Volume 29, Number 2, Winter 2009 p.391

Strengthening the Rule of law , but Fragmenting International Law: The Kadi Decision of the ECJ from the Perspective of Human Rights
Katja S. Ziegler
Human Rights Law Review
Volume 9, Number 2, 2009 p.288-305

Human Rights and Military Decisions: Counterinsurgency and Trends in the Law of International Armed Conflict
Dan E. Stigall, Christopher L. Blakesley & Chris Jenks
University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law
Volume 30, Number 4, Summer 2009 p.1367

Examining the Utility of Third World Approaches to International Law for International Human Rights Law
Badaru, Opeoluwa Adetoro
International Community Law Review
Volume 10, Number 4, December 2008 p.379-387

Border Controls at Sea: Requirements under International Human Rights and Refugee Law
Andreas Fischer-Lescano, Tillmann Lühr, and Timo Tohidipur
International Journal of Refugee Law
Volume 21, Number 2, July 2009 p.256-296

International Soft Law, Human Rights and Non-state Actors: Towards the Accountability of Transnational Corporations?
Elena Pariotti
Human Rights Review
Volume 10, Number 2, June 2009 p.139-155

The Right to Reparations in International Human Rights Law and the Case of Bahrain
Jared L. Watkins
Brooklyn Journal of International Law
Volume 34, Number 2, 2009 p.559

Climate change litigation
Hon Justice Brian J Preston
Environmental and Planning Law Journal
Volume 26, Number 3, May 2009 p.169

In the absence of an international treaty to address global warming, climate change litigation is presenting itself as an attractive alternative path to address the effects of climate change. Environmental groups and affected individuals and groups have taken up the challenge and brought climate change related actions before the courts. Lawsuits have targeted unresponsive governments or companies that are major greenhouse gas emitters. This article focuses on avenues that have been used, and other potential causes of action which could be used, to litigate issues relating to climate change. At the national level, plaintiffs have used tort law (public Nuisance , negligence, civil conspiracy, and misrepresentation), Administrative law (merits review and judicial review proceedings) or constitutional law grounds (enforcement of a constitutional right). Environmental disputes have also been litigated before a range of international fora, including the International Court of Justice , the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea or regional human rights courts.

 

Author: international

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Administrative law, International Court of Justice, International human rights law, International institutions, Labor law, Nuisance, Rule of law.