Un Working Group on Arbitrary Detention - Commentary and Guide to Practice

This book is a practitioner's manual and the first ever comprehensive analysis of the jurisprudence of this UN body focused on arbitrary detention. It will be of great value to lawyers, human rights groups, UN officials, diplomats, governments, academics, and students alike.

List of contents

Foreword by Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu; Part I. Background: 1. Overview of the working group; 2. Deliberations of the working group; Part II. Individual Case Procedure: 3. Process for taking a case to the working group; Part III. Case Jurisprudence: 4. Category I: no legal basis for detention; 5. Category II: violation of fundamental rights and freedoms; 6. Category III: violation of rights of due process; 7. Category IV: violation of rights of asylum seekers; 8. Category V: discrimination on protected grounds; 9. Detention not arbitrary; Part IV. Additional Case Studies: 10. Mohamed Nasheed v. The Maldives; 11. 'Balyoz' or Sledgehammer Cases v. Turkey; 12. Aung San Suu Kyi v. Myanmar; 13. Mukhtar Ablyazov v. France; 14. Yang Jianli v. China; Table of authorities; Appendices: required legal materials; Index.

About the author

Jared Genser is Managing Director of Perseus Strategies, a public interest law firm, and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. He is the founder of Freedom Now, an independent non-governmental organization, and has been referred to by the New York Times as 'The Extractor' for his work freeing political prisoners around the world. Genser is the recipient of the American Bar Association's International Human Rights Award.

Summary

This book is a practitioner's manual and the first ever comprehensive analysis of the jurisprudence of this UN body focused on arbitrary detention. It will be of great value to lawyers, human rights groups, UN officials, diplomats, governments, academics, and students alike.

Product details

• Authors: Jared Genser, Genser Jared
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781108822428
• ISBN: 978-1-108-82242-8
• No. of pages: 654
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Human rights & civil liberties law, LAW / International, LAW / Public, LAW / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Civil rights & citizenship, International institutions, Human rights, civil rights, International humanitarian law, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Public international law: humanitarian law, International institutions / intergovernmental organizations