Strengthening Human Rights Protections in Geneva, Israel, the West Bank and Beyond

Addresses challenges to the implementation of international human rights law from institutional, normative and practical perspectives.

Joseph E. David (Edited by), Yaël Ronen (Edited by), Yuval Shany (Edited by), J. H. H. Weiler (Edited by)

9781108833127, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 26 August 2021

200 pages
23 x 15 x 2 cm, 0.55 kg

This collection of essays is written by some of the world's leading experts in international human rights law, and corresponds to the main junctures in the professional life of Professor David Kretzmer, a leading human right academic and practitioner. The different essays focus on contemporary human rights protection challenges. They address conceptual problems such as differences between limits and restrictions, and application of human rights standards to businesses and international organisations; legal doctrinal responses to changing realities in the field of surveillance and identity politics; the weakness of monitoring institutions engaged in standard setting; and the practical difficulties in applying international human rights law to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a manner sensitive to gender dimensions and the particular political dynamics of the situation. Collectively, the essays offer a rich picture of the current potential shortcomings of international human rights law in addressing complex problems of law, politics and ethics.

Introduction
1. On Limits and Restrictions of Human Rights: A Systematic Attempt to Privacy Eckart Klein
2. Digital Surveillance, Meta Data and Foreign Intelligence Cooperation: Unpacking the International Right to Privacy Anja Seibert-Fohr
3. Some Reflections upon Access to Justice, in the Transnational Setting, as a 'Right to Law' Gianluigi Palombella
4. Human Rights Treaty Bodies as Standard-Setting Mechanisms: the Case of Family Law in CEDAW Ruth Halperin-Kaddari
5. The Applicability of the Law of Occupation to UN Administration of Foreign Territory Eyal Benvenisti
6. The Responsibility of Businesses operating in the Settlements in Occupied Yaël Ronen
7. Occupational Hazards: Gender and The Law of Occupation in Israel-Palestine Fionnuala Ní Aoláin
8. Rule of Law de jure and/or de facto?: Shamgar and the International Law of Belligerent Occupation Yuval Shany
9. Political Liberalism in a Jewish and Democratic State Gila Stopler
10. Law and Identity: An Unwieldy Dance Joseph E. David
11. David Kretzmer: An Academic Biographical Portrait Pnina Lahav
12. David Kretzmer: A Role Model Mordechai Kremnitzer.

Subject Areas: Human rights & civil liberties law [LNDC], International humanitarian law [LBBS], International law of territory & statehood [LBBJ], Treaties & other sources of international law [LBBC], International law [LB], Human rights [JPVH]