International Human Rights Law and Practice

Ilias Bantekas is Professor of International Law at Brunel University. He has held human rights-related academic posts at leading law schools, including the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Harvard University and the University of Trier. He has advised governments, international organisations and NGOs in most fields of human rights and international law, and was a member of the Greek Truth Committee on Debt. His recent books include Criminological Approaches to International Criminal Law (Cambridge, 2014), Introduction to International Arbitration (Cambridge, 2015) and International Law, 2nd edition (with E. Papastavridis, 2015). Lutz Oette is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has pursued human rights cases before several regional and international bodies, and has engaged with a range of actors in comparative research, advocacy and reform projects aimed at developing and implementing international human rights standards.

1. International human rights law and notions of human rights: foundations, achievements and challenges; 2. International human rights law: the normative framework; 3. Human rights in practice; 4. The United Nations Charter system; 5. The UN human rights treaty system; 6. Regional human rights treaty systems; 7. Individual complaints procedures; 8. Civil and political rights; 9. Economic, social and cultural rights; 10. Group rights: self-determination, minorities and indigenous peoples; 11. The human rights of women; 12. Children's rights; 13. The right to development, poverty and related rights; 14. Victims' rights and reparation; 15. The application of human rights in armed conflict; 16. Human rights and international criminal justice; 17. Human rights and counter-terrorism; 18. Human rights obligations of non-state actors; 19. Globalisation and its impact on human rights.