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New Faculty Publications in Human Rights Law

Encyclopedia of Human Rights (David P. Forsythe, editor in chief; David Weissbrodt et al., senior editors, Oxford University Press, 2009)
Call Number: Law Library Reference JC571 .E673 2009

David Weissbrodt served as a senior editor of the Encyclopedia and authored the following entries:

Arvonne Fraser

Discrimination and Older Persons

Donald Fraser

National Human Rights Institutions

UN Sub-Commission on Human Rights

Civil and Political Rights: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Due Process, Rule of Law, and Habeas Corpus

Publisher's Description: This major five-volume encyclopedia offers comprehensive coverage of all aspects of human rights theory, practice, law, and history. The set will provide situation profiles and full coverage of the development of the movement, historical cases of abuse, the key figures, major organizations, and a range of other issues in economics, government, religion, and journalism that touch on human rights theory and practice.

The Encyclopedia provides original analytical articles covering standard subjects such as the right to health and health care, Amnesty International, the Balkan wars, and former President of Ireland Mary Robinson, and also offers innovative coverage of such subjects as the Internet, intellectual property rights, the American civil rights movement, globalization, and Brazil in historical context. Focusing primarily on developments since 1945, it offers an unrivaled reference source for students and researchers; even human rights experts are likely to find much original material and keen insights in many of the entries."

David Weissbrodt, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin et al., International Human Rights: Law, Policy, and Process (LexisNexis, 4th ed., 2009)
Call Number: Law Library Reserve K3240 .W45x 2009

Publisher's Description: This comprehensive work provides an introduction to human rights law, policy, and process. International Human Rights begins with an overview, then discusses drafting and ratifying treaties, establishing institutions, using procedures for monitoring compliance and responding to gross violations, using adjudicative remedies, applying refugee and international labor law, relating human rights norms to terrorism, and exploring how the causes of violations can be used to improve human rights compliance. The Fourth Edition addresses a number of significant developments in the human rights arena including:

Emergence of international criminal law as a potential response to crimes against humanity; Emergence of the United Nations Security Council as a significant human rights actor and the challenges it faces; The role of human rights norms in responding to and regulating state responses to terrorism; The capacity of human rights to respond to abuses by corporate actors; The ability of human rights to respond to and account for violations committed in the context of ethnic hatred, internal conflict, and intrastate violence; and The challenges faced by non-government human rights organizations in the post 9/11 context.

Full post as published by LexLibris on October 12, 2009 (boomark / email).