In: Oxford Monographs in International Law
Questions as to when a state owes obligations under a human rights treaty towards an individual located outside its territory are being brought more and more frequently before both international and domestic courts. Victims of aerial bombardment, inhabitants of territories under military occupation, deposed dictators, suspected terrorists detained in Guantanamo by the United States, and the family of a former KGB spy who was assassinated in London through the use of a radioactivetoxin, allegedly at the orders or with the collusion of the Russian government - all of these people have claimed pr
In: Oxford monographs in international law
In: Oxford Monographs in International Law Ser.
States' human rights obligations under international treaties often extend beyond their borders and cases are increasingly being brought for violations which took place outside of a state's territory. This book makes sense of the often confusing case law on this issue and proposes a new way of interpreting extraterritorial human rights obligations.
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