CIGJ new working paper series

The Centre for International Governance and Justice (CIGJ) is delighted to make available several new working paper series.

These working papers are part of the Professor Hilary Charlesworth’s ARC Laureate Fellowship, ‘Strengthening the International Human Rights System: Rights, Regulation and Ritualism’, funded by the Australian Research Council’s Laureate Fellowship scheme.

The project focuses on a problem endemic to the international human rights system: why are international human rights standards widely accepted in theory but so hard to implement in practice?

1. Rituals of Human Rights Workshop Working Papers.

These papers were delivered at ‘The Rituals of Human Rights’ Workshop, held at the Australian National University on 25-27 June 2014. The papers were revised following the workshop but remain working drafts.

The papers are listed here.

2. Rights, Regulation and Ritualism - Country Studies

One aspect of the project is to identify and analyse the ways that regulatory ritualism operates in the international human rights system through a series of case studies. The case studies document techniques of ritualism employed by countries participating in the international human rights system, with particular reference to the United Nations’ Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review.

The papers are listed here.

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