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

Joseph E. David, Yaël Ronen, Yuval Shany, J. H. H. Weiler

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781108833127
• eBook ISBN:
  9781108968171
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Human Rights
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Introduction
• 1 On Limits and Restrictions of Human Rights: A Systematic Attempt
• 2 Digital Surveillance, Meta Data and Foreign Intelligence Cooperation: Unpacking the International Right to Privacy
• 3 Some Reflections upon Access to Justice, in the Transnational Setting, as a 'Right to Law'
• 4 Human Rights Treaty Bodies as Standard-Setting Mechanisms: The Case of Family Law in CEDAW
• 5 The Applicability of the Law of Occupation to UN Administration of Foreign Territory
• 6 The Responsibility of Businesses Operating in the Settlements in Occupied Territory
• 7 Occupational Hazards: Gender and the Law of Occupation in Israel-Palestine
• 8 Rule of Law De Jure and/or De Facto?: Shamgar and the International Law of Belligerent Occupation
• 9 Political Liberalism in a Jewish and Democratic State
• 10 Law and Identity: An Unwieldy Dance
• 11 David Kretzmer: An Academic Biographical Portrait
• 12 David Kretzmer: A Role Model
• David Kretzmer: Selected Publications
• Index