This article discusses ten family migration cases decided by the House of Lords or Supreme Court (“the Court”) starting with Huang in 2007 and ending with Quila in 2011.

It argues that they collectively embody a set of principles about the relationship between immigration control, the courts, and migrants’ family life which have [...]

This chapter explores the contribution of mandate-holders of special procedures to the development of international human rights standards, using as a paradigm their diverse

interpretation of the legal framework, which serves as the basis of their operations. [...]

Introduction: It is fifty years since the European Court of Human Rights was first established as the body responsible for deliberating on states’ compliance with the European

Convention on Human Rights, a treaty adopted under the auspices of the Council of Europe in 1950. [...]

Pluralism has been recognised by the European Court of Human Rights as a guiding principle for the interpretation and application of the European Convention on Human Rights,

being inseparably linked to the ideals of democracy and human rights. Legal pluralism, however, is a distinct and unendorsed system which may raise concerns in relation [...]

Over time the corpus of rights and obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights has developed into and is perhaps best understood as a system of autonomous concepts,

with the European Court of Human Rights acting as its master of conceptualisation. [...]

The “living instrument” doctrine has emerged as a key vehicle for evolution and innovation within the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial

Discrimination (ICERD). Originating in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, the doctrine has been adopted by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial [...]

On 3 April 2008, Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) delivered the judgment in Prosecutor v. Ramush Haradinaj, Idriz Balaj

and Lahi Brahimaj (Haradinaj et al.). The ICTY Prosecutor had charged the accused, former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), with war crimes and crimes [...]

Rape and other forms of sexual offences as international crimes embark on an unknown journey because neither international criminal law nor international humanitarian law provides

any specific definition of the elements of the crime. Lack of legal precedent and practice opens a window for international criminal tribunals to apply human rights [...]

[Summary of book containing this chapter:] This book comprises contributions by leading experts in the field of international humanitarian law on the subject of the categorisation

or classification of armed conflict. It is divided into two sections: the first aims to provide the reader with a sound understanding of the legal questions surrounding [...]

The International Crimes Tribunal of Bangladesh (ICT-BD) was established by the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act 1973 to prosecute international crimes committed during

the liberation war in Bangladesh. Although Bangladesh is a member state of the Rome Statute, the International Criminal Court (ICC) cannot exercise its jurisdiction [...]