Lecturer Daragh Murray Human Rights Book sku-50721138

Lecturer Daragh Murray's hardcover book, Studies in International Law: Human Rights Obligations of Non-State Armed Groups (Series #57), is listed under International Law Books as sku-50721138. It examines how non-state armed groups may be bound by international law and subject to international human rights obligations.

Murray considers de facto control where an armed group has displaced state authority and established an independent existence. Treating the group as a vertical authority preserves the existing hierarchy of international regulation while adapting how the law applies.

The book also examines potential ratione personae restrictions and interprets human rights treaties within the legal system prevailing at the time of interpretation. It argues that vertical application to armed groups is consistent with the law's object, purpose and foundation in human dignity.

For obligations to work in practice, Murray proposes a context-dependent division of responsibility between the territorial state and the armed group, adapting the respect, protect, fulfil framework to their respective control.

Andrew Clapham, Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, describes the proposals as realistic and carefully argued.