Human Rights Law Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Human Rights Law Review is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Enforced disappearances: on universal responses to a worldwide phenomenon20
The anatomy of a valid waiver of human rights11
Reconciling the Dual-Faceted Mandates of Quasi-Judicial Human Rights Bodies: The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention’s Prima Facie Approach to Evidence10
Rethinking human rights: critical insights from Palestinian youth9
Judicial Convergence and Fragmentation in International Human Rights Law: the Regional Systems and the United Nations Human Rights Committee8
Deference, Dignity and ‘Theoretical Crisis’: Justifying ECtHR Rights Between Prudence and Protection8
The 2016 UN General Assembly Declaration on the Right to Peace: A Step towards Sustainable Positive Peace within Societies?7
Child Rights, Legal Theory and Social Advocacy6
The Human Right to Land: A Peasant Struggle in the Human Rights System6
Judicial Activism and Judge-Made Law at the ECtHR6
Truth commissions on disability institutions: towards a disability truth and repair framework6
‘Turning the Rights Lens Inwards’: The Case for Child Rights-Consistent Strategic Litigation Practice6
Strengthening the rule of law: the necessity of protecting human rights defenders from criminalisation5
Scholarship in Times of Constitutional Transformation: A View from Hong Kong5
Disability Discrimination in the Digital Realm: How the ICRPD Applies to Artificial Intelligence Decision-Making Processes and Helps in Determining the State of International Human Rights Law5
The customary prohibition of the mandatory death penalty in international law5
X Factors and Tipping Points in Eviction Cases: A Statistical Analysis of Eviction Litigation of the European Court of Human Rights5
The Indivisibility of Human Rights: An Empirical Analysis5
Navigating the right to a fair trial for vulnerable suspects pretrial: a legal and psychological critique of the Strasbourg jurisprudence5
Introduction to special edition: ‘the convention on the rights of persons with disability: next generation thinking’4
Human Rights and the Universal Periodic Review Mechanism: A Research Companion4
Ensuring Data Science and Its Applications Benefit Humanity: Data Monetization and the Right to Science4
The Disappearing ‘Minimum Rights’ of Article 6 ECHR: the Unfortunate Legacy of Ibrahim and Beuze4
Duties of persons with disabilities under the African disability rights protocol: a sceptical argument4
Women and International Human Rights in Modern Times: A Contemporary Casebook4
Positive Obligations Under the European Convention on Human Rights: Within and Beyond Boundaries4
From common law duty of care to statutory mandatory human rights due diligence: the continuing challenge of holding parent companies liable for human rights abuses committed by subsidiary companies3
The Right of the Child to Play: From Conception to Implementation3
Catarina Woyames Dreher, A Legal Assessment of the Efficacy of Consultation with Indigenous Peoples: The Case of Brazil3
Brazil and Climate Justice: Pioneering Climate Litigation for a Global Cause3
Deconstructing the Eviction Protections Under the Revised European Social Charter: A Systematic Content Analysis of the Interplay Between the Right to Housing and the Right to Property3
Children’s Religious Identity in Alternative Care and Adoption: The Need to Recentre the Child’s Best Interest in International Human Rights Adjudication3
The Committee on the Rights of the Child’s Admissibility Decisions in the ‘Syrian Camps Cases’ against France: a Critique from the Viewpoint of Treaty Interpretation3
Rethinking the predominant purpose test under Article 18 ECHR—lessons from the détournement de pouvoir à la française3
Adaptive Protection of Human Rights: Stealth Institutionalisation of Scrutiny Functions in ASEAN’s Limited Regime3
The intersubjective dimension of human dignity—from philosophical theorizing to case law examples from the European Court of Human Rights2
Borrowed Words and Judicial Gestalt: A Dialogical Reading of Hirst, the ECtHR and Prisoner Voting Rights2
Lodestar in the Time of Coronavirus? Interpreting International Obligations to Realise the Right to Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic2
The Times and Temporalities of International Human Rights Law2
Disability human rights standards before the European Court of Human Rights—false convergence and methodologically-driven divergence?2
Uncovering the Nature of ECHR Rights: An Analytical and Methodological Framework2
Access to Courts for Asylum Seekers and Refugees: State Obligations under the 1951 Refugee Convention2
Does the Practice of the European Convention on Human Rights Fit the Practical Conception of Human Rights?2
Patents, Human Rights, and Access to Medicines. By Emmanuel Kolawole Oke. (Cambridge University Press, 2022, 175 pp) Hardback, GBP 95, ISBN 9781108472104.2
Mental Capacity, Dignity and the Power of International Human Rights2
Rendering International Human Rights Law Fit for Purpose on Climate Change2
Legal-Conflict Constellations. A Political Approach to the ‘Labour Rights-Human Rights’ Debate2
Recognizing Early Childhood Education as a Human Right in International Law2
Sex and Gender in International Human Rights Law through the Prism of the ‘Women’ Category in Recent Case Law2
Hidden, indirect and ulterior purpose review by regional human rights courts: comparing the cases against Azerbaijan and Venezuela2
Free and Informed Elections? Disinformation and Democratic Elections Under Article 3 of Protocol 1 of the ECHR1
Climate Change and the Modern Slavery Conundrum in Africa: Reimagining the Relevance of Human Rights Law1
The ambiguous complementarity of twins: co-operation between the European Union and the Council of Europe1
Who Manages Menstrual Health? The Untapped Potential of the Right to Health to Support a Comprehensive Right to Menstrual Health beyond Menstrual Hygiene Management1
The Universal Right to Legal Capacity—Clearing the Haze1
From Doughnut Economics to Doughnut Jurisprudence: A Human Rights Perspective1
Rights experimentalism under uncertainty: transnational law and human rights for neurotechnologies1
Human Rights Defenders and the Law A Constitutional and International Legal Approach1
Litigating the politics of human rights: contemporary U.S. culture wars on trial1
The Cambridge handbook of the right to freedom of thought1
Hate speech and the European Court of Human Rights1
Continuing confusion? The UN Human Rights Committee’s jurisprudence on continuing violations and jurisdiction ratione temporis1
Exporting the European Convention on Human Rights1
Bridging the business–human rights divide: the multi-dimensional dynamics of transnational access to justice in mass tort litigation1
Taxation at the European Court of Human Rights1
Article 8 ECHR, Family Reunification and the UK’s Supreme Court: Family Matters?1
Protecting the Arctic Indigenous Peoples’ Livelihoods in the Face of Climate Change: The Potential of Regional Human Rights Law and the Law of the Sea1
A right to health case for access to affordable procreative assistance1
Illegalization of migrants as inhuman and degrading treatment: envisioning non-returnability under Article 3 of the European Convention of Human Rights1
Vulnerability, Care Ethics and the Protection of Socioeconomic Rights via Article 3 ECHR1
Allocating Human Rights Obligations in the ECHR1
The human right to freedom of thought—operationalising a disputed right in the context of neurotechnologies1
Proportionality, Stringency and Utility in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights1
The Right to Research in Africa: Exploring the Copyright and Human Rights Interface1
Prisoner Lives Cut Short: The Need to Address Structural, Societal and Environmental Factors to Reduce Preventable Prisoner Deaths1
Enforcing international judgments domestically: the case of the inter-American court of human rights1
National security secrecy in ECtHR proceedings—the Court’s eroding toolbox against unjustified secrecy and abuse1
Correction to: Deconstructing the Eviction Protections Under the Revised European Social Charter: A Systematic Content Analysis of the Interplay Between the Right to Housing and the Right to Property1
Filling the Accountability Gap: Misleading Conduct Law in Business and Human Rights1
‘If Only for a Day’: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Anniversary Commemoration and International Human Rights Law0
Beware of the siren’s call—the European right to hope and the challenge of old age behind bars0
General Comment No. 25 on Children’s Rights in Relation to the Digital Environment: Implications for Children’s Right to Privacy and Data Protection in Africa0
Re-thinking international human rights law’s approach to identity in light of surveillance and AI0
Addressing the Linkages Between Nondiscrimination and Substantive Rights0
Beyond the liberal subject: challenges in interpreting the CRPD, and the CRPD’s challenges to human rights0
Protecting the rights of older persons in situations of risk and humanitarian emergencies through the proposed UN Convention on the Rights of Older Persons0
Sensory repression: the indiscriminate use of less-lethal weapons during public assemblies0
Tackling Torture: Prevention in Practice0
Towards a systematic and explicit legitimate aims test in human rights challenges to EU entities0
Is the Obligation Not to Refoule a Positive Obligation? An Intermediate Approach Toward the Classification Dilemma0
The European Convention on Human Rights: pillars, shifts, and challenges0
Defer or Revise? Horizontal Dialogue Between UN Treaty Bodies and Regional Human Rights Courts in Duplicative Legal Proceedings0
Book Review0
Glorification of Terrorist Violence at the European Court of Human Rights0
Temporal disruptions in the UNCRPD: an untimely future for legal capacity?0
The protection of the right to energy through the European Social Charter0
The CRPD is Here and queer! A lesson in queering human rights law0
Justiciable socio-economic rights as adaptive law for urban resilience0
Taking Dignity Seriously to Protect Manual Scavengers in India: Lessons from the UN Human Rights Committee0
The four horsemen of illegitimacy? Unveiling the ECtHR’s interpretation of its legitimate aim requirement through a comparative categorization of illegitimate aims0
Reservations to the Istanbul Convention and the Role of GREVIO: A Call for New Approach0
The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Employment Relation0
Cyberviolence Against Women Under International Human Rights Law: Buturugă v Romania and Volodina v Russia (No 2)0
Tracing the Development of the Proportionality Analysis in Relation to Forced Evictions under the ICESCR0
Intersex Activism, Medical Power/Knowledge and the Scalar Limitations of the United Nations0
A New Theoretical Model of the Right to Environment and its Practical Advantages0
Internet rights and the European Court of Human Rights: a systematic analysis of the role of the internet in the case law of the Strasbourg Court0
The Tension between the National and ECHR Human Rights Adjudication: A Normative Account0
Reconsidering the absolute nature of the right to freedom of thought0
Language and Persuasion: Human Dignity at the European Court of Human Rights0
The criminalization of sexual minorities in international human rights law: an appraisal0
Solidarity as Foundation for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights0
Better nutrition for better health: a human rights perspective on EU law and policy on food and nutrition0
Procedural Rights in the Outskirts of Criminal Law: European Union Administrative Fines0
Recognizing future generations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: An overdue reappraisal0
Representing woundedness: the functions of affects and emotions in international human rights testimonial forums0
Does the Osman Test Go to School? Recent Developments Concerning States’ Positive Obligations to Protect Children in School0
Frontiers of gender equality: transnational legal perspectives0
Scotland, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and repurposing of mental health and capacity law0
Correction to: Recognizing Early Childhood Education as a Human Right in International Law0
Correction to: Execution of the Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights in Prisoners' Right to Vote Cases0
Protection from Refuge: From Refugee Rights to Migration Management0
What’s in a Right? Concretizing States’ Climate Change Mitigation Obligations under Human Rights Law0
Enabling the Right to Liberty of the Person in Aged Care Homes0
A Positive Right to Rehabilitation? An Examination of the ‘Principle of Rehabilitation’ in the Caselaw of the European Court of Human Rights0
Decolonizing Equality—The Legacies of Anti-Colonial Struggles at International Labour Conferences, 1920–19400
Protecting the Right to Social Participation of Older Persons in Long-Term Care under Article 19 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities0
A Research Agenda for Human Rights and the Environment0
Indigenous cultural property and international law—restitution, rights and wrongs0
Fundamental Rights of Corporations as International Human Rights: The Perspective of Regional Economic Courts0
Blurred lines: the European court of human rights and jurisprudential confusion at the border0
Evasive Manoeuvres: Strasbourg, the Hague Child Abduction Convention and the Absolute Prohibition on Ill-Treatment0
Trapped within state normative and institutional limits? Internal conventionality control in the Inter-American Human Rights System0
Legitimate aims and ulterior purposes in human rights law: opening up a comparative research agenda0
The Discursive Evolution of Human Rights Law: Empirical Insights from a Computational Analysis of 180,000 UN Recommendations0
Signalling in European Rule of Law Cases: Hungary and Poland as Case Studies0
Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights0
Advancing Children’s Rights in Peace Processes: The Role of the Committee on the Rights of the Child0
Borrowing, rephrasing, or inventing? How the African Commission and Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights have filled the gap on legitimate restrictions to freedom of expression0
A forgotten element of the right to adequate food: redressing the normative gap regarding consumer acceptability0
On the Road to Silent Guns: Examining the Regional Regulation of States’ Use of Force during Counterterrorism Policing in Africa0
Incompatible or impossible—legal conflict resolution at the European Court of Human Rights0
The Silences of International Human Rights Law: The Need for a UN Treaty on Violence Against Women0
Interpreting the ECHR in Light of the Increasingly High Standards Being Required by Human Rights: Insights from Social Ontology0
Whose Voice?: Female Genital Cutting and the Obscuring Effects of Top-Down Criminalisation0
Misappropriation of Children’s Rights as a Legitimate Aim?: Comparing the Responses of the European Court of Human Rights and the UN Human Rights Committee to LGBTQ+ Rights Backlash0
Framing Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights Law: Mediating between the Abstract and the Concrete0
The Received View about the Right to Marry: A Critique0
Minimum Wages Directive and Beyond: Workers’ Dignity Taken (Almost) Seriously0
Human Rights Law Review Symposiums 2023–250
Reasserting the Right to Adequate Clothing in International Human Rights Law0
The Engel criteria in the 21st century: irrational flexibility and deference in recent European Court of Human Rights jurisprudence0
The Institutional Guarantee of the Human Right to Science0
The Right to be Oneself0
The ECHR and the Positive Obligation to Criminalise Domestic Psychological Violence0
A framework for implementing the right of the child to play: space, time, acceptance, rights-informed0
Correction to: Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom, Valerie Sperling, and Melike Sayoglu, Courting Gender Justice: Russia, Turkey, and the European Court of Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 2019, 296pp, £610
Rethinking the Right to Freedom of Thought: A Multidisciplinary Analysis0
All Beginnings Are Difficult: The Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights a Decade After Their Adoption0
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