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Considering time in migration and border control practices
(Inderscience, 2016-10)
Practices within the area of migration and border control are often
analysed through a spatial lens. This is understandable: migration studies deal
with movement of people across different places and spaces. Internatio ...
Conceptualising human rights as international constitutional guarantees: promises and perils of comparativism
(Presses Universitaires d'Aix-Marseille, 2016)
[No abstract available]
Introduction to Post-Conflict Rebuilding and International Law
(Ashgate, 2012)
International law, literature and interdisciplinarity
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-07-03)
This article analyses the relationship between international law and literature from the point of view of its form of expression. Using insights from Deleuze and Guattari's analysis of Kafka's oeuvre as a ‘minor literature’, ...
Revisiting the reservations dialogue: negotiating diversity while preserving universality through human rights law
(Hart Publishing, 2016-04-30)
[No abstract available]
Rethinking human rights and culture through female genital surgeries
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015-02)
The article revisits the relationship between culture and human rights through the analysis of one traditionally condemned cultural practice known in human rights law as female genital mutilation. The analysis draws on ...
The "Reservations Dialogue" as a constitution-making process
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2013)
The article proposes a new reading of the reservations regime to human rights treaties. The practice developed by states in relation to the reservations regime is analysed and presented as a constitution-making process. ...
Hospitality and sovereignty: what can we learn from the Canadian private sponsorship of refugees program?
(Oxford University Press, 2012-09-10)
This article addresses the tension between state sovereignty and refugee protection. The application of refugee law is often harshly criticized with such modern tendencies as increased border controls ...
Muslim women's claims to refugee status within the context of child custody upon divorce under Islamic law
(Oxford University Press, 2010)
This article analyses case law from the UK, New Zealand, and Canada relating to claims for recognition of refugee status presented by divorced Muslim women, revolving around the issue of child custody after divorce under ...