Final Report Summary - HUBBOR (Human Rights Beyond Borders: The extraterritorial application of international human rights law - comparative legal, historical and theoretical approaches)
The project provides a detailed, comprehensive, independent and authoritative explanation and critical appraisal of the extraterritorial application of human rights law, covering both civil and political rights and economic social and cultural rights, including the right to development. It does this thorough analysis of both the law itself, and cognate theoretical ideas. This combined focus on law and theory provides entirely novel ways of thinking about both the subject-matter and the ideas implicated in it. Equally, the full-spectrum comparative treatment of the different areas of rights provides new and innovative insights on the extraterritorial aspects of each area and how the areas intersect. Moreover, the project addresses the topic at both a general level and also through a series of case studies, from cyberspace to military occupation, international economic relations, diplomatic asylum and global migration.
The project analysis will provided through three linked books, published open access by CUP, addressing, respectively, the legal framework, a series of case studies, and interdisciplinary approaches. A further book published by OUP will link project conclusions on the extraterritorial application of human rights law to the general structural features of human rights law. A series of 23 journal articles/book chapters, many of which being open access, address discrete aspects of the topic. Once all the outputs are published, a series of shorter policy briefs, setting out key project conclusions for a generalist, non-expert audience, will be written and disseminated online.
The project analysis will provided through three linked books, published open access by CUP, addressing, respectively, the legal framework, a series of case studies, and interdisciplinary approaches. A further book published by OUP will link project conclusions on the extraterritorial application of human rights law to the general structural features of human rights law. A series of 23 journal articles/book chapters, many of which being open access, address discrete aspects of the topic. Once all the outputs are published, a series of shorter policy briefs, setting out key project conclusions for a generalist, non-expert audience, will be written and disseminated online.