Fragmentation and Integration in Human Rights Law

Users’ Perspectives

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

From the perspective of rights holders and duty bearers, human rights law appears as an increasingly complex field of law, consisting of different levels, actors and norms. The fragmentation of human rights law has resulted in an uncoordinated legal architecture that may in some circumstances create obstacles for effective human rights protection. Against this background, this volume examines how to make sense – in both theoretical and practical terms - of these multiple layers of human rights law through which human rights users have to navigate.

‘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.'
——保罗Pinto de阿尔布开克,欧洲ean Court of Human Rights and Catholic University, Portugal