Recent publications in international human rights law
| Date | 01 December 2020 |
| Published date | 01 December 2020 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0924051920967214 |
| Subject Matter | Recent publications |
Recent publications
Recent publications in
international human rights law
Ashford C and Maine A, Research Handbook on Gender, Sexuality and the Law (Edward Elgar
Publishing Limited 2020)
This innovative and thought-provoking Research Handbook explores not only current debates in
the area of gender, sexuality and the law but also points the way for future socio-legal research and
scholarship. It presents wide-ranging insights and debates from across the globe, including Africa,
Asia, Eastern Europe and Australia, with contributions from leading scholars and activists along-
side exciting emergent voices
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Bhandari R, Human Rights and the Revision of International Refugee Law (Routledge 2020)
This book addresses the relationship between International Refugee Law and International Human
Rights Law. Using international refugee law’s analytical turn to human rights as its object of
inquiry, it represents a critical intervention into the revisionism that has led to conceptual frag-
mentation and restrictive practices. Mainstream literature in refugee law reflects a mood of cel-
ebration, a narrative of progress which praises the discipline’s rescue from obsolescence. This is
commonly ascribed to its repositioning alongside human rights law, its veritable rediscovery as an
arm of this far greater edifice. By using human rights logic to construct the current legal paradigm
and inform us of who qualifies as a refugee, this purportedly lent areas of conceptual uncertainty a
set of objective, modern criteria and increased enfranchisement to new, non-traditional claimants.
The present work challenges this dominant position by finding the untold limits of its current
paradigm. It stands alone in this orientation and hereby represents one of the most comprehensive,
heterodox and structurally detailed reviews of this connection. The exploration of the gap between
modern approaches and the unsatisfactory realities of seeking asylum forms the substance of this
book. It asserts, by contrast, the existence of revolution rather than evolution. Human rights law has
erased the founding tenets of the Refugee Convention, enabling powerful states to contain refugees
in their region of origin.
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Borrows J and Schwartz R, Indigenous Peoples and International Trade: Building Equitable and
Inclusive International Trade and Investment Agreements (Cambridge University Press 2020)
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of I ndigenous Peoples is seen primarily as an
international human rights instrument. However, the Declaration also encompasses cultural, social
Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights
2020, Vol. 38(4) 312–317
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