Dictionary of International Human Rights Law

A day or two before the Editor asked if I would review this Dictionary, viewers of British television were informed of two new cases which showed how unexpected controversies can suddenly arise in the laws of human rights. In one, it was revealed that a traveller passing through an international airport does not have the same legal safeguards against detention without charge as he would have had if he had been walking down the road outside it. In the other, several multiple murderers contended, to the consternation of some observers, that to be sentenced to life imprisonment was a...