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Universal Minority Rights – A Commentary on the Jurisprudence of International Courts and Treaty Bodies

Universal Minority Rights – A Commentary on the Jurisprudence of International Courts and Treaty... Book Reviews / International Journal on Minority and Group Rights 18 (2011) 115–121 119 M. Weller (ed.), Universal Minority Rights – A Commentary on the Jurisprudence of International Courts and Treaty Bodies , Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-19-920851-7; price: GBP 72.50; 576 pages. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the revival of the minority question on the international scene that followed, there has been a burgeoning literature on minority protection. Yet this seems to be the fi rst book that proposes a system- atic analysis of the practice of major international and regional human rights bodies from a minority rights perspective. Th e 12 chapters that compose the book are written by diff erent authors, many of whom are renowned experts in the fi eld of minority rights, such as Fernand de Varennes, Asbjørn Eide, Kristin Henrard, Rainer Hofmann, Geoff Gilbert and Patrick Th ornberry. Universal Minority Rights is meant to be an extension and a complement of Th e Rights of Minorities – A Commentary on the European Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (Oxford University Press, 2005), also edited by Marc Weller two years earlier. Whereas the latter http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal on Minority and Group Rights Brill

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Brill
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© 2011 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1385-4879
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10.1163/157181111X551012
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Book Reviews / International Journal on Minority and Group Rights 18 (2011) 115–121 119 M. Weller (ed.), Universal Minority Rights – A Commentary on the Jurisprudence of International Courts and Treaty Bodies , Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-19-920851-7; price: GBP 72.50; 576 pages. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the revival of the minority question on the international scene that followed, there has been a burgeoning literature on minority protection. Yet this seems to be the fi rst book that proposes a system- atic analysis of the practice of major international and regional human rights bodies from a minority rights perspective. Th e 12 chapters that compose the book are written by diff erent authors, many of whom are renowned experts in the fi eld of minority rights, such as Fernand de Varennes, Asbjørn Eide, Kristin Henrard, Rainer Hofmann, Geoff Gilbert and Patrick Th ornberry. Universal Minority Rights is meant to be an extension and a complement of Th e Rights of Minorities – A Commentary on the European Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (Oxford University Press, 2005), also edited by Marc Weller two years earlier. Whereas the latter

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International Journal on Minority and Group Rights – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2011

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