Fragmentation and Integration in Human Rights Law

'This book presents a thorough and inspiring analysis of the current trend towards fragmentation in the domain of human rights. There is a serious risk that fragmentation will lead to a race to the bottom in terms of human rights protection. In addition to the excellence of the individual contributions, on issues that range from specialisation to contextualisation of human rights law, and from human rights experimentation to strategic choice in human rights litigation, this book comes at the right time. It is a must read.' -- Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque, European Court of Human Rights and Catholic University, Portugal

Edited by Eva Brems, Professor and Saila Ouald-Chaib, Post Doctoral Researcher, Human Rights Centre, Ghent University, Belgium

Contents: Introduction Saila Ouald-Chaib 1. Methodologies to study human rights law as an integrated whole from a users' perspective: lessons learnt Ellen Desmet 2. Understanding International Criminal Law from a Users' Perspective: Pluralism Due to Contestation, Integration through Collaboration Mathias Holvoet and Paul De Hert 3. Fragmentation, Harmonization and the Users' Perspective: The Munduruku Peoples' View on Land and the Developing Standards on Indigenous Peoples' Land Rights Derek Inman, Stefaan Smis and Edson 'Krenak' Dorneles de Andrade 4. Fragmentation/Integration of human rights law - a users' perspective on the CRPD Barbara Oomen 5. Human Rights Integration in action: making equality law work for trans people in Belgium Emmanuelle Bribosia and Isabelle Rorive 6. Between assimilation and exclusion: is there room for an 'integrated' approach towards constitutional and international protection of human rights? Sebastien Van Drooghenbroeck and Olivier Van der Noot 7. Smart Human Rights Integration Eva Brems Index