Can ASEAN Take Human Rights Seriously?

By:   Alison Duxbury (University of Melbourne), Hsien-Li Tan (National University of Singapore)
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 138mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   600g
ISBN:   9781108465908
ISBN 10:   1108465900
Series:   Integration through Law The Role of Law and the Rule of Law in ASEAN Integration
Pages:   426
Publication Date:   28 March 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Alison Duxbury is a Professor at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, and a member of the International Advisory Commission of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative and the Council of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law. Alison's major research interests are in the fields of international law, international institutional law and human rights law. Her previous publications include The Participation of States in International Organisations: The Role of Human Rights and Democracy (Cambridge, 2011) and a co-edited book, Military Justice in the Modern Age (Cambridge, 2016). Duxbury has been a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law in Cambridge, the Centre for Comparative and Public Law at the University of Hong Kong, the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in London. Tan Hsien-Li is the Co-Director (Teaching) for the ASEAN Law and Policy Programme at the Centre for International Law (CIL) and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (NUS). Dr Tan previously held fellowships at the European University Institute, Florence, and the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice, New York University. She was also the AsianSIL Research Fellow at NUS and the Ushiba Memorial ASEAN Fellow in Tokyo. Dr Tan researches on the role and the rule of law and institutions in ASEAN integration; public international law, particularly on institution building and norm creation; and human rights and peace and security. She wrote the first book on the ASEAN human rights system: The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (Cambridge, 2011) and has co-authored a book on ASEAN dispute settlement mechanisms: Promoting Compliance (Cambridge, 2016).