Human rights are commonly regarded as the antidote to criminalization and securitization.
Yet, since 9/11, at both the national and international levels, human rights law has largely …

In this article, I show how the term lawfare is being deployed as a speech act in order to
encode the field of human rights as a national security threat. The objective, I claim, is to …

Since the Cold War, human rights 1 have become the global embodiment of a contemporary
“ethics of progress” or “secular religion”(Cohen 1993: 491) and a vital framing with which …

Human rights are commonly regarded as the antidote to criminalization and securitization.
Yet, since 9/11, at both the national and international levels, human rights law has largely …

Human rights frameworks and terminology have been employed in criminological
scholarship for some time, and yet there is little explicit recognition of what Stanley (2007) …

Human rights issues are closely connected to a range of political processes, from
democracy and conflict resolution to judicial accountability and terrorism. Despite the …

The priorities reflected in the overarching system that includes the regimes dealing with
international human rights law, international humanitarian law, and international criminal …

In contrast to many studies that link the weakening of human rights to the post-September
11th counter-terrorism policies, this paper seeks to attribute it to the gradual disappearance …

This article analyses the role that human rights bodies play in triggering the application of
criminal law. By examining the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights …

Liberal democracies throughout the world have been confronted with the instrumentalization
of the rule of law by private and public actors to achieve undemocratic aims, thereby …