Book Launch: Research Handbook on Implementation of Human Rights in Practice
5 December 2022, 6.00 PM - 5 December 2022, 7.00 PM
online
The Human Rights Implementation Centre (HRIC) would like to invite you to a book launch of Prof Rachel Murray and Dr Debra Long’s edited collection, Research Handbook on Implementation of Human Rights in Practice, published by Edward Elgar.
About the Research Handbook on Implementation of Human Rights in Practice
It is a truism that ‘ideas are easy, implementation is hard’. Human rights systems at the domestic, regional, and international levels, have all been criticised for a perceived lack of implementation. This criticism has arisen out of a sense that despite the development of a myriad of human rights instruments and mechanisms, real, lasting change on the ground is still elusive. However, is this pessimism misplaced? In the past two decades, there has been a growing body of scholarship, and action by stakeholders at all levels, to better understand the factors, and actors, that influence the extent to which states implement human rights law.
This Handbook arises out of the Human Rights Law Implementation Project, a four-year research grant funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, which was led by the Human Rights Implementation Centre of the University of Bristol, in collaboration with the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Essex and Pretoria, the Law School of the University of Middlesex, and the Open Society Justice Initiative.
The collection from eminent scholars and practitioners is framed in three parts. Part I considers relevant terminology, what form reparations take, trends, theoretical and methodological perspectives and strategies. The role of actors, domestic and international, and the interplay between them, are the subject of Part II, and Part III concludes with the tools used to facilitate and monitor implementation.
About the book launch
The launch will be chaired by Prof Frans Viljoen of the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria in South Africa and will feature Prof Clara Sandoval (University of Essex and Global Survivors Fund), Dr Alice Donald (Middlesex University) and Mx Anne-Katrin Speck (Ghent University), and Dr Christian De Vos (Physicians for Human Rights and formerly Open Society Justice Initiative), as well as the editors of the Handbook.
Attendees at the launch will be able to obtain a discount code providing for a 35% discount off the cost of the Handbook.
Contact information
Register your place here on the Eventbrite.
Any queries contact Mei Mei Cheung via law-research-exec@bristol.ac.uk.
