Jared Genser

The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 656
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1232g
• ISBN-13: 9781108822428
• ISBN-10: 1108822428
• Artikelnr.: 59993055

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.