International Human Rights Law and Practice

Ilias Bantekas is Professor of International Law, Hamad bin Khalifa University (Qatar Foundation) and senior fellow at IALS University of London. He has held human rights-related academic posts at leading law schools, including Brunel University, SOAS, Harvard and 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: Sovereign Debt and Human Rights (with C. Lumina, 2018) and Commentary on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability (edited with M. A. Stein and D. Anastasiou, 2018). Lutz Oette is a Reader in International Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London and Director of the SOAS Centre for Human Rights Law. He has pursued human rights cases before several regional and international bodies and engaged with a range of actors in standard setting, comparative research, advocacy and reform projects aimed at developing and implementing international human rights standards, particularly on the prohibition of torture. He is the editor of Criminal Law Reform and Transitional Justice: Human Rights Perspectives for Sudan (2011) and co-editor of Constitution-making and human rights in the Sudans (with M. A. Babiker, 2018).

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 system; 7. Individual complaints procedures; 8. Civil and political rights; 9. Economic, social and cultural rights; 10. Group rights: self-determinations, minorities and indigenous peoples; 11. The human rights of women; 12. Children's rights; 13. The recognition and protection of the human rights of vulnerable groups and persons; 14. The right to development and sustainable development; 15. Victims' rights and reparation; 16. The application of human rights in armed conflict; 17. Human rights and international criminal justice; 18. Human rights and counter-terrorism; 19. Human rights obligations of non-state actors; 20. Globalisation and its impact on human rights.