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Papers

(The median citation count of Human Rights Law Review is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The anatomy of a valid waiver of human rights	24
Reconciling the Dual-Faceted Mandates of Quasi-Judicial Human Rights Bodies: The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention’s Prima Facie Approach to Evidence	19
Judicial Activism and Judge-Made Law at the ECtHR	16
The 2016 UN General Assembly Declaration on the Right to Peace: A Step towards Sustainable Positive Peace within Societies?	13
Judicial Convergence and Fragmentation in International Human Rights Law: the Regional Systems and the United Nations Human Rights Committee	12
Rethinking human rights: critical insights from Palestinian youth	11
The Human Right to Land: A Peasant Struggle in the Human Rights System	7
Deference, Dignity and ‘Theoretical Crisis’: Justifying ECtHR Rights Between Prudence and Protection	7
‘Turning the Rights Lens Inwards’: The Case for Child Rights-Consistent Strategic Litigation Practice	7
The Human Rights Implications of the Use of AI in the Digital Welfare State: Lessons Learned from the Dutch SyRI Case	6
Disability Discrimination in the Digital Realm: How the ICRPD Applies to Artificial Intelligence Decision-Making Processes and Helps in Determining the State of International Human Rights Law	5
Reconstructing the Roles of Human Rights Treaty Organs under the ‘Two-Tiered Bounded Deliberative Democracy’ Theory	4
Navigating the right to a fair trial for vulnerable suspects pretrial: a legal and psychological critique of the Strasbourg jurisprudence	4
Truth commissions on disability institutions: towards a disability truth and repair framework	4
Ensuring Data Science and Its Applications Benefit Humanity: Data Monetization and the Right to Science	4
X Factors and Tipping Points in Eviction Cases: A Statistical Analysis of Eviction Litigation of the European Court of Human Rights	4
Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom, Valerie Sperling, and Melike Sayoglu, Courting Gender Justice: Russia, Turkey, and the European Court of Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 2019, 296pp, £61.00) ISBN: 9780	4
Child Rights, Legal Theory and Social Advocacy	4
Scholarship in Times of Constitutional Transformation: A View from Hong Kong	4
Duties of persons with disabilities under the African disability rights protocol: a sceptical argument	3
The Indivisibility of Human Rights: An Empirical Analysis	3
Tinker, Tailor, Twitter, Lie: Government Disinformation and Freedom of Expression in a Post-Truth Era	3
Positive Obligations Under the European Convention on Human Rights: Within and Beyond Boundaries	3
Uncovering the Nature of ECHR Rights: An Analytical and Methodological Framework	2
Children’s Religious Identity in Alternative Care and Adoption: The Need to Recentre the Child’s Best Interest in International Human Rights Adjudication	2

Hope’s Relations: A Theory of the ‘Right to Hope’ in European Human Rights Law	2
Adaptive Protection of Human Rights: Stealth Institutionalisation of Scrutiny Functions in ASEAN’s Limited Regime	2
Legal-Conflict Constellations. A Political Approach to the ‘Labour Rights-Human Rights’ Debate	2
Catarina Woyames Dreher, A Legal Assessment of the Efficacy of Consultation with Indigenous Peoples: The Case of Brazil	2
Women and International Human Rights in Modern Times: A Contemporary Casebook	2
The Right of the Child to Play: From Conception to Implementation	2
The Disappearing ‘Minimum Rights’ of Article 6 ECHR: the Unfortunate Legacy of Ibrahim and Beuze	2
The Committee on the Rights of the Child’s Admissibility Decisions in the ‘Syrian Camps Cases’ against France: a Critique from the Viewpoint of Treaty Interpretation	2
Deconstructing the Eviction Protections Under the Revised European Social Charter: A Systematic Content Analysis of the Interplay Between the Right to Housing and the Right to Property	2
Human Rights and the Universal Periodic Review Mechanism: A Research Companion	2
Introduction to special edition: ‘the convention on the rights of persons with disability: next generation thinking’	2
Rendering International Human Rights Law Fit for Purpose on Climate Change	1
Lodestar in the Time of Coronavirus? Interpreting International Obligations to Realise the Right to Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Borrowed Words and Judicial Gestalt: A Dialogical Reading of Hirst, the ECtHR and Prisoner Voting Rights	1
Mental Capacity, Dignity and the Power of International Human Rights	1
The European Human Rights System and the Right to Life Seen through Suicide Prevention in Places of Detention: Between Risk Management and Punishment	1
The Draft Convention on the Right to Development: A New Dawn to the Recognition of the Right to Development as a Human Right?	1
Correction to: Deconstructing the Eviction Protections Under the Revised European Social Charter: A Systematic Content Analysis of the Interplay Between the Right to Housing and the Right to Property	1
The Times and Temporalities of International Human Rights Law	1
Patents, Human Rights, and Access to Medicines. By Emmanuel Kolawole Oke. (Cambridge University Press, 2022, 175 pp) Hardback, GBP 95, ISBN 9781108472104.	1
Recognizing Early Childhood Education as a Human Right in International Law	1
Enforcing Rights Beyond Litigation: Mapping NGO Strategies in Monitoring ECtHR Judgement Implementation	1
Damian Etone, The Human Rights Council: The Impact of the Universal Periodic Review in Africa (Routledge, 2021, xv + 215 pp, £36.99) ISBN 9781032175317 (pb).	1
National security secrecy in ECtHR proceedings—the Court’s eroding toolbox against unjustified secrecy and abuse	1
Prisoner Lives Cut Short: The Need to Address Structural, Societal and Environmental Factors to Reduce Preventable Prisoner Deaths	1
Article 8 ECHR, Family Reunification and the UK’s Supreme Court: Family Matters?	1
Sex and Gender in International Human Rights Law through the Prism of the ‘Women’ Category in Recent Case Law	1
Disability human rights standards before the European Court of Human Rights—false convergence and methodologically-driven divergence?	1
Access to Courts for Asylum Seekers and Refugees: State Obligations under the 1951 Refugee Convention	1
Does the Practice of the European Convention on Human Rights Fit the Practical Conception of Human Rights?	1
Protecting the Arctic Indigenous Peoples’ Livelihoods in the Face of Climate Change: The Potential of Regional Human Rights Law and the Law of the Sea	1
Human Rights Defenders and the Law A Constitutional and International Legal Approach	1
From Doughnut Economics to Doughnut Jurisprudence: A Human Rights Perspective	1
The Universal Right to Legal Capacity—Clearing the Haze	1
Allocating Human Rights Obligations in the ECHR	0
Correction to: Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom, Valerie Sperling, and Melike Sayoglu, Courting Gender Justice: Russia, Turkey, and the European Court of Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 2019, 296pp, £61	0
A framework for implementing the right of the child to play: space, time, acceptance, rights-informed	0
Beyond the liberal subject: challenges in interpreting the CRPD, and the CRPD’s challenges to human rights	0
Anna Nilsson, Compulsory Mental Health Interventions and the CRPD: Minding Equality (Hart Publishing, 2021, xi + 186pp, £67.50) ISBN 97815099315 76 (hb)	0
Reasserting the Right to Adequate Clothing in International Human Rights Law	0
Glorification of Terrorist Violence at the European Court of Human Rights	0
The Discursive Evolution of Human Rights Law: Empirical Insights from a Computational Analysis of 180,000 UN Recommendations	0
Genetic Data and the Right to Privacy: Towards a Relational Theory of Privacy?	0
Rethinking the Right to Freedom of Thought: A Multidisciplinary Analysis	0
Re-thinking international human rights law’s approach to identity in light of surveillance and AI	0
Whose Voice?: Female Genital Cutting and the Obscuring Effects of Top-Down Criminalisation	0
Human Rights Law Review Symposiums 2023–25	0
Procedural Rights in the Outskirts of Criminal Law: European Union Administrative Fines	0
A right to health case for access to affordable procreative assistance	0
Framing Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights Law: Mediating between the Abstract and the Concrete	0

Tackling Torture: Prevention in Practice	0
Who Manages Menstrual Health? The Untapped Potential of the Right to Health to Support a Comprehensive Right to Menstrual Health beyond Menstrual Hygiene Management	0
The Institutional Guarantee of the Human Right to Science	0
Reservations to the Istanbul Convention and the Role of GREVIO: A Call for New Approach	0
The Inconsistencies of Age-Related Incapacity Thresholds in International Law: Child Rape Victims at a Disadvantage	0
Risking Children: The Implications of Predictive Risk Analytics Across Child Protection and Policing for Vulnerable and Marginalized Children	0
All Beginnings Are Difficult: The Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights a Decade After Their Adoption	0
Free and Informed Elections? Disinformation and Democratic Elections Under Article 3 of Protocol 1 of the ECHR	0
The Marks of Civilisation: The Special Stigma of Torture	0
The Tension between the National and ECHR Human Rights Adjudication: A Normative Account	0
Correction to: Execution of the Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights in Prisoners' Right to Vote Cases	0
A forgotten element of the right to adequate food: redressing the normative gap regarding consumer acceptability	0
A Positive Right to Rehabilitation? An Examination of the ‘Principle of Rehabilitation’ in the Caselaw of the European Court of Human Rights	0
Natasa Mavronicola, Torture, Inhumanity and Degradation under Article 3 of the ECHR: Absolute Rights and Absolute Wrongs (Hart Publishing, 2021, x + 209 pp, £67.50) ISBN 978-1-50990-299-6 (hb)	0
Is the Obligation Not to Refoule a Positive Obligation? An Intermediate Approach Toward the Classification Dilemma	0
The Right to a Fair Online Hearing	0
On the Road to Silent Guns: Examining the Regional Regulation of States’ Use of Force during Counterterrorism Policing in Africa	0
Anticorruption and Transitional Justice: A Distinction Without a Difference	0
A Research Agenda for Human Rights and the Environment	0
‘If Only for a Day’: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Anniversary Commemoration and International Human Rights Law	0
Signalling in European Rule of Law Cases: Hungary and Poland as Case Studies	0
Protection from Refuge: From Refugee Rights to Migration Management	0
General Comment No. 25 on Children’s Rights in Relation to the Digital Environment: Implications for Children’s Right to Privacy and Data Protection in Africa	0
Advancing Children’s Rights in Peace Processes: The Role of the Committee on the Rights of the Child	0
Language and Persuasion: Human Dignity at the European Court of Human Rights	0
Interpreting the ECHR in Light of the Increasingly High Standards Being Required by Human Rights: Insights from Social Ontology	0
Decolonizing Equality—The Legacies of Anti-Colonial Struggles at International Labour Conferences, 1920–1940	0
The Right to Research in Africa: Exploring the Copyright and Human Rights Interface	0
The Protection of the Environment through International Human Rights Litigation: Taking Stock of Challenges and Opportunities in the Inter-American System	0
Filling the Accountability Gap: Misleading Conduct Law in Business and Human Rights	0
Scotland, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and repurposing of mental health and capacity law	0
Transnational Business and Human Rights Litigation: An Imperialist Project?	0
The human right to freedom of thought—operationalising a disputed right in the context of neurotechnologies	0
The ECHR and the Positive Obligation to Criminalise Domestic Psychological Violence	0
The Right to be Oneself	0
Climate Competence: Youth Climate Activism and Its Impact on International Human Rights Law	0
Fundamental Rights of Corporations as International Human Rights: The Perspective of Regional Economic Courts	0
Tracing the Development of the Proportionality Analysis in Relation to Forced Evictions under the ICESCR	0
Beware of the siren’s call—the European right to hope and the challenge of old age behind bars	0
Intersex Activism, Medical Power/Knowledge and the Scalar Limitations of the United Nations	0
Temporal disruptions in the UNCRPD: an untimely future for legal capacity?	0
Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights	0
Frontiers of gender equality: transnational legal perspectives	0
Something Ventured, Nothing Gained?—Remedies before the ECtHR and Their Potential for Climate Change Cases	0
Defer or Revise? Horizontal Dialogue Between UN Treaty Bodies and Regional Human Rights Courts in Duplicative Legal Proceedings	0
Evasive Manoeuvres: Strasbourg, the Hague Child Abduction Convention and the Absolute Prohibition on Ill-Treatment	0
The Received View about the Right to Marry: A Critique	0
A New Theoretical Model of the Right to Environment and its Practical Advantages	0
Does the Osman Test Go to School? Recent Developments Concerning States’ Positive Obligations to Protect Children in School	0
The European Convention on Human Rights: pillars, shifts, and challenges	0
Cyberviolence Against Women Under International Human Rights Law: Buturugă v Romania and Volodina v Russia (No 2)	0
The criminalization of sexual minorities in international human rights law: an appraisal	0
Minimum Wages Directive and Beyond: Workers’ Dignity Taken (Almost) Seriously	0
Missed Opportunities: Participation of NGOs in Advisory Proceedings of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights	0
Enabling the Right to Liberty of the Person in Aged Care Homes	0
Taking Dignity Seriously to Protect Manual Scavengers in India: Lessons from the UN Human Rights Committee	0
Alice Margaria, The Construction of Fatherhood: The Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2019, xiii + 191 pp, £85) ISBN 978-1-108-47509-9 (hb)	0
Proportionality, Stringency and Utility in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights	0
Justiciable socio-economic rights as adaptive law for urban resilience	0
‘Treatment in Liberty’ Human Rights and Compulsory Detention for Drug Use	0
Taxation at the European Court of Human Rights	0
Interpreting the Right to Interpretation under Article 6(3)(e) ECHR: A Cautious Evolution in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights?	0
Exporting the European Convention on Human Rights	0
Reconsidering the absolute nature of the right to freedom of thought	0
Protecting the Right to Social Participation of Older Persons in Long-Term Care under Article 19 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities	0
Climate Change and the Modern Slavery Conundrum in Africa: Reimagining the Relevance of Human Rights Law	0
The Silences of International Human Rights Law: The Need for a UN Treaty on Violence Against Women	0
Zvezda Vankova, Circular Migration and the Rights of Migrant Workers in Central and Eastern Europe. The EU Promise of a Triple Win Solution (Springer, 2020, xxii +261 pp, Open Access) eBook ISBN 97830	0
Vulnerability, Care Ethics and the Protection of Socioeconomic Rights via Article 3 ECHR	0
Solidarity as Foundation for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights	0
What’s in a Right? Concretizing States’ Climate Change Mitigation Obligations under Human Rights Law	0
Correction to: Recognizing Early Childhood Education as a Human Right in International Law	0
The CRPD is Here and queer! A lesson in queering human rights law	0