Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface to the third edition
- Table of cases
- Table of international instruments
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and recognition of the right to life
- 2 The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: drafting, ratification and reservation
- 3 Interpretation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- 4 Towards abolition: the Second Optional Protocol and other developments
- 5 International humanitarian law
- 6 International criminal law
- 7 European human rights law
- 8 Inter-American human rights law
- 9 African human rights law
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface to the third edition
- Table of cases
- Table of international instruments
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and recognition of the right to life
- 2 The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: drafting, ratification and reservation
- 3 Interpretation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- 4 Towards abolition: the Second Optional Protocol and other developments
- 5 International humanitarian law
- 6 International criminal law
- 7 European human rights law
- 8 Inter-American human rights law
- 9 African human rights law
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
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- Information
- The Abolition of the Death Penalty in International Law , pp. 454 - 459Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002