The Law and Process of the U.N. Human Rights Committee focuses attention how the Committee functions as a decision-making body and brings to light troubling flaws in the Committee’s operations that may undermine its ability to induce compliance.
Published under the auspices of the Procedural Aspects of International Law Institute (PAIL). For more information about PAIL please go to Pail-Institute.org.
Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.
Kirsten Young is currently based in Geneva, where she is European Legal Counsel and Human Rights Coordinator for Landmines Survivors Network.
Foreword by Louis B. Sohn; Editor’s Foreword by Burns H. Weston; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Preface; Chapter 1 - A Brief History of the Establishment of the Human Rights Committee;
Chapter 2 - International Norms Relating to the Procedures of the Human Rights Committee; Chapter 3 - The Procedure of Human Rights Committee
in Relation to Communications; Chapter 4 - Communications Involving Complaints
Against States Parties’ Judiciaries; Chapter 5 Conclusions; Appendix A: Cross-Referencing Guide to the Records of the Human Rights Committee; Appendix B: Rules of Procedure of the Human Rights Committee; Bibliography; Table of Cases; Index; About The Procedural Aspects of International Law Institute; Procedural Aspects of International Law Monograph Series; Other PAIL Institute Publications.