Critical Judgment Projects: Integrated Human Rights

This project redrafts crucial human rights judgments and decisions from supranational human rights monitoring bodies “as if human rights law were really one”. Fifteen judgments across a range of areas in human rights jurisprudence have been rewritten, accompanied by a commentary outlining the methodology adopted and an explanation of how human rights monitoring bodies may adopt an integrated approach to human rights law. The judgments are published in a collection edited by Eva Brems and Ellen Desmet, Integrated Human Rights in Practice: Rewriting Human Rights Decisions (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017).

Available Extracts:

• Marijke De Pauw and Paul de Hert, ‘Integrating disability and elder rights into the ECHR: rewriting McDonald v the United Kingdom’

• Malcolm Langford, ‘Revisiting Joslin v New Zealand: Same-sex Marriage in Polarised Times’

• Valeska David, ‘Caring, Rescuing or Punishing? Rewriting R.M.S V Spain (Ecthr) From an Integrated Approach to the Rights of Women and Children in Poverty’

• Emmanuelle Bribosia, Ivana Isailovic and Isabelle Rorive, ‘Objection Ladies! Taking IPPF-EN v Italy (ECSR) One Step Further’ (working paper version of judgment)

Commentary/Other Resources:

• Strasbourg Observers, ‘New book: Integrated Human Rights in Practice. Rewriting Human Rights Decisions’ on Strasbourg Observers (2 November 2017)