The world's understanding of the action needed to advance human rights is deeply
structured by the 'respect, protect, and fulfill'framework. But its potential is significantly …

Low-carbon transitions in industrialised societies will have significant social, economic and
environmental impacts, raising concerns of justice. Calls for urgent transitions evoke a …

Since the end of World War II and the founding of the United Nations, genocide, crimes
against humanity and other war crimes—mass atrocities—have been explicitly illegal. When …

Serious human rights violations, particularly against ethnic minorities, have been a stark
reality in Myanmar for many decades. The Rohingya crisis that deteriorated in 2017 and the …

This article examines how effective the African Union (AU) has been in pushing states to be
more democratic in nature and to respect, protect, fulfil and promote the human rights of their …

Over the past two decades, we have seen a significant shift in norms literature away from the
idea that a norm reflects a fixed and universally accepted shared understanding to notions …

(carlos@ inst. uc3m. es) Catedrático de derecho internacional público de la UC3M. Este
artículo forma parte del proyecto de Investigación Nuevos desafíos del derecho, del …

This work is a concerted attempt to achieve an informed interpolation between ethics,
politics and legal scholarship on international law, with reference to the specific category of …

Responsibility in the field of security has become well established and is central to most
discussions of international peace and security today. In fact, it rests squarely at the …

Currently, there is an engorging fascination with and heightened expectations from
international legal accountability. Crimes Against Humanity examines whether international …