The prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman, degrading treatment or punishment has a special status. It is the foremost international human rights norm

This book conducts an in-depth analysis into the lawfulness of State-sponsored targeted killings under international human rights and humanitarian law. It also

Although the relationship between international human rights law and the law of armed conflict has been the subject of significant recent academic discussion, t

Offers the first-ever comprehensive treatment under international law of the foundational human right to life.

This book focuses on how human rights would regulate non-lethal weapons through the growing interplay between humanitarian law and human rights law.