Friday, February 21, 2014

New Issue: Human Rights Law Review

The latest issue of the Human Rights Law Review (Vol. 14, no. 1, March 2014) is out. Contents include:
  • Articles
    • Elina Steinerte, The Jewel in the Crown and Its Three Guardians: Independence of National Preventive Mechanisms Under the Optional Protocol to the UN Torture Convention
    • Peter Cumper, Multiculturalism, Human Rights and the Accommodation of Sharia Law
    • Dirk van Zyl Smit, Pete Weatherby, & Simon Creighton, Whole Life Sentences and the Tide of European Human Rights Jurisprudence: What Is to Be Done?
    • Federico Fabbrini, The European Court of Human Rights, Extraordinary Renditions and the Right to the Truth: Ensuring Accountability for Gross Human Rights Violations
    • Mark Coen, ‘With Cat-Like Tread’: Jury Trial and the European Court of Human Rights
  • Shorter Articles and Recent Developments
    • Michael K. Addo, The Reality of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
    • Janneke Gerards, Inadmissibility Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights: A Critique of the Lack of Reasoning