Browsing University of Galway Theses (PhD Theses) by Author "Schabas, William"
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Constructive Engagement and Human Rights: The Case of EU Policy on China
Egan, Annabel (2012-09-28)Since the European Commission released its first communication on relations with China in 1995, together, human rights diplomacy and human rights assistance, in the form of EU funding for rights-related technical cooperation ... -
Drug control policies and human rights
Bi, Yingxi (2015-01-09)This study examines drug control policy through the prism of human rights norms. Emphasis is placed on identifying and analysing the conflicts that arise between rights protection and drug control. The research presented ... -
Failed and Failing States: Causes and Conditions
Silva, Mario (2012-06-11)Through scholarly consideration this study evaluates structural competency gaps that precipitate state failure and examines the resulting consequences for the world community. As an elected official for over seventeen ... -
De la promotion et protection des droits humains dans le contexte du VIH/SIDA: facteur limitant l'extension de l'épidémie? (The Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in the Context of HIV/AIDS: a Factor limiting the Growth of the Epidemic?)
Mwenedata, Alfred (2011-10-21)The HIV/AIDS pandemic has reached historical heights. The number of infected people has been rising constantly and the HIV crisis has been spreading to more and more countries. Testimony to this is the higher number of ... -
Mass justice for mass atrocity: Transitional justice and illiberal peace-building in Rwanda
Waldorf, Lars Teilhet (2013-12-01)Rwanda took the new, global norm of accountability to its logical extreme by putting more than one million, mostly low-level genocide suspects on trial. In doing so, Rwanda challenged the dominant model of accountability ... -
Revolution and international criminal law: The extraordinary chambers in the courts of Cambodia
Wang, Jia (NUI Galway, 2020-05-08)This doctoral thesis examines whether and how a context of revolution impacts the application of international criminal law through a case study of the revolutionary context during the Democratic Kampuchea era in Cambodia, ... -
The role of the judge in the progressive development of international criminal law
Powderly, Joseph (2017-01-19)International criminal law offers fertile ground for considering the role of the bench in the development of law through creative or progressive interpretative methodologies. Since its genesis at Nuremberg more than 70 ... -
State duty to inform and educate public opinion on human rights standards
Dang, Heping (2015-02-11)The present study seeks to challenge the State's tendency to simply blame public opinion when there are difficulties in protecting and promoting human rights. This study discovers that on racial and gender equality, ... -
Transitional justice in Africa: Traditional and modern approaches to addressing genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity
De Ycaza, Carla (NUI Galway, 2016-11-01)The term transitional justice generally refers to a range of judicial and nonjudicial mechanisms that have been utilized by countries in order to address massive human rights abuses. Such mechanisms can include prosecutions, ... -
Why Customary Law Matters: The Role of Customary Law in the Protection of Indigenous Peoples' Human Rights
Tobin, Brendan Michael (2011-09-30)For millions of Indigenous peoples around the world their own customary laws (nonstate laws they consider binding upon them) are their primary, if not their only source of law. Long marginalized and where recognized ...