The Right to a Fair Trial under Article 14 of the ICCPR

The right to a fair trial is the most litigated human right in the world. Understanding the right requires reference not only to its interpretation by courts, treaty bodies, rapporteurs, experts, and scholars, but also to the preparatory work of the treaty (travaux pr?paratoires) and the circumstances of its conclusion. This volume brings together for the first time the complete travaux to Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, with reference to the discussion regarding other articles where relevant. It traces the evolution of the text over more than a decade of the drafting process through a number of United Nations bodies. The materials reveal a lengthy and complex process of drafting the Covenant, the intentions of the delegates regarding the interpretation of certain provisions, and those issues that they left open for states parties to decide through their practice. This is a companion volume to The Right to a Fair Trial in International Law (OUP 2020).

Auteur

Amal Clooney is a barrister who specialises in international law and human rights. She regularly appears before the United Nations and international courts including the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights. She specialises in cases involving political prisoners and has won multiple awards for her work in freeing journalists imprisoned for their work around the world. She is also a specialist in representing victims of mass atrocities including Yazidi victims of genocide in national courts and Darfuri victims before the International Criminal Court. She is appointed to the UK Attorney General's specialist Public International Law Panel of Counsel, was appointed to an expert panel on media freedom by the former President of the UK Supreme Court, and served as a senior advisor to Kofi Annan when he was the UN's Envoy on Syria. She is a Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School and co-founder of the Clooney Foundation for Justice. Philippa Webb is Professor of Public International Law at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London and a barrister at Twenty Essex. She is a specialist in international law and advises governments, individuals, and corporations in cases before international and domestic courts, including the International Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights, and the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. She is appointed to the UK Attorney General's specialist Public International Law Panel of Counsel. Professor Webb has served on the International Advisory Panel for the American Law Institute's project Restatement Fourth, Foreign Relations Law of the United States and the governing board of the European Society of International Law. She is on the editorial boards of the Journal of International Criminal Justice, the International & Comparative Law Quarterly, and the Leiden Journal of International Law.