Research Methods for International Human Rights Law

Damian Gonzalez-Salzberg is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Sheffield. He has worked as a lawyer in Argentina within the field of human rights and has published extensively on international human rights law in leading international journals, such as Modern Law Review, Human Rights Law Review, American University International Law Review, Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly and Sur – International Journal of Human Rights. He is the author of Sexuality and Transsexuality under the European Convention on Human Rights, recently published by Hart. Loveday Hodson is Associate Professor in Law at the University of Leicester. She has published widely on gender, sexuality and international human rights law. She convened the European Society of International Law’s interest group on Feminism and International Law for a number of years and currently sits on the editorial board of Feminist Legal Studies.

1. Introduction: human rights research beyond the doctrinal approach; 2. A Marxist approach to R.M.T. v the United Kingdom; 3. A feminist approach to Alyne da Silva Pimentel Teixeira (deceased) v Brazil; 4. A postmodern approach to Elisabeta Dano v Jobcenter Leipzig; 5. A queer approach to the Advisory Opinion 24/2017; 6. A legal pluralistic approach to The Bakassi peninsula case; 7. A geographical approach to The Moiwana Community v Suriname; 8. A historical approach to Chagos Islanders v the United Kingdom; 9. A political approach to Lautsi and others [GC] v Italy; 10. An anthropological approach to MSS v Belgium and Greece; 11. Afterword; 12. Index