Remedies in International Human Rights Law

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Oxford University Press, 2005 - Law - 502 pages
This fully revised and updated new edition of Remedies in International Human Rights Law provides a comprehensive treatment of remedies for human rights violations and reviews the jurisprudence of international tribunals on these violations. It provides a theoretical framework and a practical guide for lawyers, judges, and academics interested in human rights law. This edition also incorporates a new chapter on historical injustices. All the cases of the Inter-American and European Courts of Human Rights are included, as well as decisions of the African and Inter-American Commissions on Human Rights, UN bodies, the European Court of Justice, international administrative tribunals, and national courts applying human rights law.

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Dinah Shelton is Patricia Roberts Harris Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School in Washington D.C. and a member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law.

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