Dinah Shelton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3598164 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dinah Shelton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dinah |
| FAMILY NAME | Shelton |
| SIGNATURE | SHELTON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3428-9207 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Human Rights
This chapter examines the express and implied powers of international organizations to address human rights issues, standard-setting by such organizations, and the structure and functioning of the bodies and institutions they have established to consider this issue. The analysis focuses on inter-governmental organizations, but the discussion refers at times to the vast array of civil society and non-governmental organizations that have contribute…
Significantly Disadvantaged? Shrinking Access to the European Court of Human Rights
Article 34 of the European Convention on Human Rights lists admissibility criteria that act to filter complaints brought to the European Court of Human Rights. A new criterion, requiring that the applicant has suffered a ‘significant disadvantage’ from the alleged human rights violation, was added to this list with the aim of reducing even further the number of cases the Court receives and must decide on the merits. The article examines the appli…
Nature as a legal person
L’attribution de la personnalité juridique à la nature ou à certains éléments du monde naturel peut être observée comme un phénomène émergeant dans plusieurs doctrines et systèmes autour du monde. Le concept historique du public trust selon la common law a été élargi afin d’y intégrer le monde naturel ou certains de ses éléments qui en deviennent des bénéficiaires protégés. En même temps, divers « droits de la nature » ont été reconnus dans les c…
Dominion and Stewardship
The Encyclical Letter of Pope Francis centers on an interpretation of Biblical texts that establishes human power over other creatures and the right to beneficial use of them, imposing a type of guardianship or a trust, not a right of ownership. The Pope emphasizes that message he presents is intended to be a universal one, not limited to all Catholics or even all Christians, but to “every person living on this planet.” The encyclical begins by r…
Legitimate and necessary: Adjudicating human rights violations related to activities causing environmental harm or risk
The UN International Law Commission and various scholars have devoted attention in recent years to the issue of the so-called fragmentation of international law. Far less consideration has been given to the proliferation, if not fragmentation, of international jurisdictions. Cross-regime issues, such as disputes concerning both labour conditions and trade, or investment and environmental regulation, pose problems because the mandates of specializ…
Konaté v. Burkina Faso
In only its second merits judgment, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Court) placed strict limits on penalizing expression, especially that of journalists, in states party to the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (African Charter). In doing so, the African Court narrowly interpreted the often-criticized “clawback clauses” in the African Charter and relied instead on the tests of necessity, proportionality, and legitimate a…
In re Direct Action of Unconstitutionality Initiated Against the Declaration of Acceptance of the Jurisdiction of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
The Dominican Republic (DR) filed its declaration accepting the jurisdiction of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Inter-American Court or Court) on March 22, 1999, and since then has been the subject of four judgments and a series of provisional measures. On November 4, 2014, however, the Constitutional Tribunal of the Dominican Republic (Tribunal) declared unconstitutional the government’s declaration accepting jurisdiction, implying tha…
The Oxford Handbook Of International Human Rights Law
This handbook provides an authoritative and original overview of one of the key branches of international law. Forty contributors comprehensively analyse the role of human rights in international law from a global perspective, examining its origins and principles, and measuring its impact on the world.
The Internet and 'New' Historians
Journal Article The Internet and 'New' Historians Get access Don Shelton Don Shelton * *114 B Remuera Road, Remuera, Auckland 1050, New Zealand. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 25, Issue 1, February 2012, Pages 222–231, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkr165 Published: 07 December 2011
Self-Determination in Regional Human Rights Law: From Kosovo to Cameroon
The right of self-determination has long been celebrated for bringing independence and self-government to oppressed groups, yet it remains a highly controversial norm of international law. From the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires after World WarI to the struggle of colonial territories for independence following World War II and the later dissolution of the former Yugoslavia, there has been an unavoidable conflict between the …
Developing substantive environmental rights
Human rights tribunals facing claims of violations stemming from environmental degradation are increasingly incorporating and applying national and international environmental standards to assess whether or not the government in question has complied with its legal obligations. The government is required to comply with whatever environmental laws it has enacted as well as treaties to which it is a party. Furthermore the tribunals will assess, alb…
Normative Hierarchy in International Law
Systems of law usually establish a hierarchy of norms based on the particular source from which the norms derive. In national legal systems, it is commonplace for the fundamental values of society to be given constitutional status and afforded precedence in the event of a conflict with norms enacted by legislation or adopted by administrative regulation; administrative rules themselves must conform to legislative mandates, while written law usual…
Righting Wrongs: Reparations in the Articles on State Responsibility
The International Law Commission’s articles on reparations restate the existing law on remedies, but they also innovate in significant ways to reinforce broader community interests in international legality. Given the dearth of precedents on reparations, both aspects can be helpful to tribunals and parties engaged in traditional interstate litigation, but the progressive elements, if they are accepted by states, could have wider application in su…
Decision Regarding Communication 155/96 (Social and Economic Rights Action Center/Center for Economic and Social Rights v. Nigeria)
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International Environmental Law
Journal Article International Environmental Law. Get access International Environmental Law. by Kiss Alexandre and Shelton Dinah. Transnational Publishers, Inc. 1991. Pp. 541. Thomas Lundmark Thomas Lundmark *Senior Professor, Fulbright Commission, University of Rostock, Germany. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 41, Issue 4, Autumn 1993, Pages 675–677, https:/…
Cases and Comments
Protecting Human Rights in the Americas. Selected Problems
Comparative Human Rights
Journal Article Comparative Human Rights Get access Comparative Human Rights.Claude Richard P., ed. Baltimore, London: John Hopkins University Press, Pp. 410. Dinah Shelton Dinah Shelton 1Assistant Professor of Law, University of Santa Clara, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 26, Issue 1, Winter 1978, Pages 124–125, https://doi.org/10.2307/839784 Pub…
Vie Privee et Droits de L'homme: Actes du Troisieme Colloque International sur la Convention Europeenne des Droits de l'Homme
Journal Article Vie Privée et Droits de L'homme: Actes du Troisieme Colloque International sur la Convention Européenne des Droits de l'Homme. Get access Vie Privée et Droits de L'homme: Actes du Troisieme Colloque International sur la Convention Européenne des Droits de l'Homme.Bruxelles: Emile Bruylant, 1973. Pp. 575. Dinah L. Shelton Dinah L. Shelton *Staff Attorney, Childhood and Government Project, School of Law, University of California, Be…
Normative Hierarchy in International Law
Systems of law usually establish a hierarchy of norms based on the particular source from which the norms derive. In national legal systems, it is commonplace for the fundamental values of society to be given constitutional status and afforded precedence in the event of a conflict with norms enacted by legislation or adopted by administrative regulation; administrative rules themselves must conform to legislative mandates, while written law usual…
Righting Wrongs: Reparations in the Articles on State Responsibility
The International Law Commission’s articles on reparations restate the existing law on remedies, but they also innovate in significant ways to reinforce broader community interests in international legality. Given the dearth of precedents on reparations, both aspects can be helpful to tribunals and parties engaged in traditional interstate litigation, but the progressive elements, if they are accepted by states, could have wider application in su…
Decision Regarding Communication 155/96 (Social and Economic Rights Action Center/Center for Economic and Social Rights v. Nigeria)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
In re Direct Action of Unconstitutionality Initiated Against the Declaration of Acceptance of the Jurisdiction of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
The Dominican Republic (DR) filed its declaration accepting the jurisdiction of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Inter-American Court or Court) on March 22, 1999, and since then has been the subject of four judgments and a series of provisional measures. On November 4, 2014, however, the Constitutional Tribunal of the Dominican Republic (Tribunal) declared unconstitutional the government’s declaration accepting jurisdiction, implying tha…
Legitimate and necessary: Adjudicating human rights violations related to activities causing environmental harm or risk
The UN International Law Commission and various scholars have devoted attention in recent years to the issue of the so-called fragmentation of international law. Far less consideration has been given to the proliferation, if not fragmentation, of international jurisdictions. Cross-regime issues, such as disputes concerning both labour conditions and trade, or investment and environmental regulation, pose problems because the mandates of specializ…
Self-Determination in Regional Human Rights Law: From Kosovo to Cameroon
The right of self-determination has long been celebrated for bringing independence and self-government to oppressed groups, yet it remains a highly controversial norm of international law. From the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires after World WarI to the struggle of colonial territories for independence following World War II and the later dissolution of the former Yugoslavia, there has been an unavoidable conflict between the …
Significantly Disadvantaged? Shrinking Access to the European Court of Human Rights
Article 34 of the European Convention on Human Rights lists admissibility criteria that act to filter complaints brought to the European Court of Human Rights. A new criterion, requiring that the applicant has suffered a ‘significant disadvantage’ from the alleged human rights violation, was added to this list with the aim of reducing even further the number of cases the Court receives and must decide on the merits. The article examines the appli…
Developing substantive environmental rights
Human rights tribunals facing claims of violations stemming from environmental degradation are increasingly incorporating and applying national and international environmental standards to assess whether or not the government in question has complied with its legal obligations. The government is required to comply with whatever environmental laws it has enacted as well as treaties to which it is a party. Furthermore the tribunals will assess, alb…
Cases and Comments
Protecting Human Rights in the Americas. Selected Problems
Vie Privee et Droits de L'homme: Actes du Troisieme Colloque International sur la Convention Europeenne des Droits de l'Homme
Journal Article Vie Privée et Droits de L'homme: Actes du Troisieme Colloque International sur la Convention Européenne des Droits de l'Homme. Get access Vie Privée et Droits de L'homme: Actes du Troisieme Colloque International sur la Convention Européenne des Droits de l'Homme.Bruxelles: Emile Bruylant, 1973. Pp. 575. Dinah L. Shelton Dinah L. Shelton *Staff Attorney, Childhood and Government Project, School of Law, University of California, Be…
Comparative Human Rights
Journal Article Comparative Human Rights Get access Comparative Human Rights.Claude Richard P., ed. Baltimore, London: John Hopkins University Press, Pp. 410. Dinah Shelton Dinah Shelton 1Assistant Professor of Law, University of Santa Clara, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 26, Issue 1, Winter 1978, Pages 124–125, https://doi.org/10.2307/839784 Pub…
Protecting Human Rights in the Americas. Selected Problems
Cases and Comments
International Environmental Law
Journal Article International Environmental Law. Get access International Environmental Law. by Kiss Alexandre and Shelton Dinah. Transnational Publishers, Inc. 1991. Pp. 541. Thomas Lundmark Thomas Lundmark *Senior Professor, Fulbright Commission, University of Rostock, Germany. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 41, Issue 4, Autumn 1993, Pages 675–677, https:/…
Righting Wrongs: Reparations in the Articles on State Responsibility
The International Law Commission’s articles on reparations restate the existing law on remedies, but they also innovate in significant ways to reinforce broader community interests in international legality. Given the dearth of precedents on reparations, both aspects can be helpful to tribunals and parties engaged in traditional interstate litigation, but the progressive elements, if they are accepted by states, could have wider application in su…
Decision Regarding Communication 155/96 (Social and Economic Rights Action Center/Center for Economic and Social Rights v. Nigeria)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Normative Hierarchy in International Law
Systems of law usually establish a hierarchy of norms based on the particular source from which the norms derive. In national legal systems, it is commonplace for the fundamental values of society to be given constitutional status and afforded precedence in the event of a conflict with norms enacted by legislation or adopted by administrative regulation; administrative rules themselves must conform to legislative mandates, while written law usual…
Developing substantive environmental rights
Human rights tribunals facing claims of violations stemming from environmental degradation are increasingly incorporating and applying national and international environmental standards to assess whether or not the government in question has complied with its legal obligations. The government is required to comply with whatever environmental laws it has enacted as well as treaties to which it is a party. Furthermore the tribunals will assess, alb…
The Internet and 'New' Historians
Journal Article The Internet and 'New' Historians Get access Don Shelton Don Shelton * *114 B Remuera Road, Remuera, Auckland 1050, New Zealand. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 25, Issue 1, February 2012, Pages 222–231, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkr165 Published: 07 December 2011
Self-Determination in Regional Human Rights Law: From Kosovo to Cameroon
The right of self-determination has long been celebrated for bringing independence and self-government to oppressed groups, yet it remains a highly controversial norm of international law. From the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires after World WarI to the struggle of colonial territories for independence following World War II and the later dissolution of the former Yugoslavia, there has been an unavoidable conflict between the …
The Oxford Handbook Of International Human Rights Law
This handbook provides an authoritative and original overview of one of the key branches of international law. Forty contributors comprehensively analyse the role of human rights in international law from a global perspective, examining its origins and principles, and measuring its impact on the world.
Nature as a legal person
L’attribution de la personnalité juridique à la nature ou à certains éléments du monde naturel peut être observée comme un phénomène émergeant dans plusieurs doctrines et systèmes autour du monde. Le concept historique du public trust selon la common law a été élargi afin d’y intégrer le monde naturel ou certains de ses éléments qui en deviennent des bénéficiaires protégés. En même temps, divers « droits de la nature » ont été reconnus dans les c…
Dominion and Stewardship
The Encyclical Letter of Pope Francis centers on an interpretation of Biblical texts that establishes human power over other creatures and the right to beneficial use of them, imposing a type of guardianship or a trust, not a right of ownership. The Pope emphasizes that message he presents is intended to be a universal one, not limited to all Catholics or even all Christians, but to “every person living on this planet.” The encyclical begins by r…
Legitimate and necessary: Adjudicating human rights violations related to activities causing environmental harm or risk
The UN International Law Commission and various scholars have devoted attention in recent years to the issue of the so-called fragmentation of international law. Far less consideration has been given to the proliferation, if not fragmentation, of international jurisdictions. Cross-regime issues, such as disputes concerning both labour conditions and trade, or investment and environmental regulation, pose problems because the mandates of specializ…
Konaté v. Burkina Faso
In only its second merits judgment, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Court) placed strict limits on penalizing expression, especially that of journalists, in states party to the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (African Charter). In doing so, the African Court narrowly interpreted the often-criticized “clawback clauses” in the African Charter and relied instead on the tests of necessity, proportionality, and legitimate a…
In re Direct Action of Unconstitutionality Initiated Against the Declaration of Acceptance of the Jurisdiction of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
The Dominican Republic (DR) filed its declaration accepting the jurisdiction of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Inter-American Court or Court) on March 22, 1999, and since then has been the subject of four judgments and a series of provisional measures. On November 4, 2014, however, the Constitutional Tribunal of the Dominican Republic (Tribunal) declared unconstitutional the government’s declaration accepting jurisdiction, implying tha…
Significantly Disadvantaged? Shrinking Access to the European Court of Human Rights
Article 34 of the European Convention on Human Rights lists admissibility criteria that act to filter complaints brought to the European Court of Human Rights. A new criterion, requiring that the applicant has suffered a ‘significant disadvantage’ from the alleged human rights violation, was added to this list with the aim of reducing even further the number of cases the Court receives and must decide on the merits. The article examines the appli…
Human Rights
This chapter examines the express and implied powers of international organizations to address human rights issues, standard-setting by such organizations, and the structure and functioning of the bodies and institutions they have established to consider this issue. The analysis focuses on inter-governmental organizations, but the discussion refers at times to the vast array of civil society and non-governmental organizations that have contribute…
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