“International Human Rights Law: A Treatise” Ludovic Hennebel and Hélène Tigroudja

Abstract

Ludovic Hennebel and Hélène Tigroudja’s treatise “International Human Rights Law: A Treatise”, published in 2025 by Cambridge University Press, represents an exceptionally ambitious and systematic contribution to contemporary scholarship on international human rights law. The work offers an exhaustive analysis based on a rigorous and systematic methodology, combining theoretical originality with a detailed knowledge of international human rights law.

The particular value of the book lies in the fact that the authors do not present international human rights law as a mere catalogue of rights contained in universal and regional international treaties. Their approach is considerably broader. Human rights law is viewed as a complex normative system in which philosophical foundations, sources of law, international institutions, judicial and quasi-judicial practice, rules of interpretation, the substantive rights of individuals, state responsibility, and mechanisms of reparation are intertwined.