Human Rights Law

Examining the harmful effects of colonisation, this book highlights the law's crucial role in driving real change. Eminent scholar Joshua Castellino proposes a five-point strategy to create a fairer system through innovative reparations and heal our planet.

This edited collection brings together a range of academics, practitioners and organisations to consider the implications of recent case law around consent in sexual relationships on the day-to-day lives of people with cognitive impairments.

The second edition of this best-selling book provides an essential guide to best practice in adult safeguarding. It has been updated to include recent legislation, guidance and research-based developments and relates them to useful practice examples.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book addresses the significant violations of social rights in the UK, as well as the gaps in access to justice to remedy them. This is a unique contribution to our understanding of human rights from the perspective of access to justice with key insights for policy and practice.

This book sheds light on the global legal impact of international social media campaigns on women’s rights. It makes a significant contribution to literature on human rights change, women’s rights and social media activism.

In 2022, Russia became the first country to be expelled from the Council of Europe due to its invasion of Ukraine. The profound impact of its exit on international human rights is hard to overestimate. This book chronicles and examines the events leading up to Russia’s expulsion, the negative legacy left by it and strategies for the future policy.

The European Court of Human Rights depends on the good faith cooperation of its members to implement judgement and maintain legitimacy. This book presents an innovative framework for understanding how local cultures dynamically shape states’ ideas about what is and is not legitimate in international human rights regimes.

This book tackles crucial and timely questions regarding the impact of international trade and investment law on state regulatory autonomy in crafting and executing measures to prevent non-communicable diseases (NCDs).

Examining high profile cases including Kiriakou, Snowden, Foxley and Assange, this book offers crucial insights into the subject of whistleblowing.

How do we better involve young children in the decision-making of their own social care? This book, developed from the Erasmus Plus-funded PANDA project, explores the development of knowledge and resources to educate and support social workers in their collaboration with children aged 12 and under.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Bringing together perspectives from a range of disciplines, this book explores the precarious situation of so-called ‘de facto’, ‘unrecognised’ or ‘contested’ states that are either at or threatened by war as they blur traditional categories of international law.

This book explores human rights oversight in asylum decision-making through a socio-legal lens, focusing on the Nordic countries. It examines how institutional contexts shape interactions between national and international law, highlighting how national decision-makers navigate and contest international norms.