Photo of Marie-Benedicte DembourMarie-Benedicte Dembour

Selected publications

Article

Dembour, Marie-Bénédicte (2012) Gaygusuz revisited: the limits of the European Court of Human Rights' equality agenda. Human Rights Law Review, 12 (4). pp. 689-721. ISSN 1461-7781

Dembour, Marie-Benedicte (2010) What are human rights? Four schools of thought. Human Rights Quarterly, 32 (1). pp. 1-20. ISSN 0275-0392

Dembour, Marie-Benedicte (2003) Human rights law and national sovereignty in collusion: the plight of quasi-nationals at Strasbourg. Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, 21 (1). pp. 63-98. ISSN 0169-3441

Dembour, Marie-Benedicte (2002) 'Finishing off' cases: the radical solution to the problem of the expanding ECtHR caseload'. European Human Rights Law Review, 5. pp. 604-623. ISSN 1361-1526

Book

Dembour, Marie-Benedicte (2006) Who Believes in Human Rights? Reflections on the European Convention. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521683074

Book Section

Dembour, Marie-Benedicte (2011) `What it takes to make a case: the backstage story of Muskhadzhiyeva v. Belgium (illegality of children¿s immigration detention)¿. In: Preventing and Sanctioning Hindrances to the Right of Individual Petition to the European Court of Human Rights. Intersentia.

Dembour, Marie-Benedicte and Martin, Marie (2011) The French Calaisis: transit zone or dead-end? In: Dembour, Marie-Benedicte and Kelly, Tobias (eds.) Are human rights for migrants: critical reflections on the status of irregular migrants in Europe and the United States. Routledge, Oxford. ISBN 9780415619066

Dembour, Marie-Benedicte and Kelly, Tobias (2011) Introduction: are human rights for migrants? In: Dembour, Marie-Benedicte and Kelly, Tobias (eds.) Are human rights for migrants?: critical reflections on the status of irregular migrants in Europe and the United States. Routledge, London. ISBN 9780415619066

Dembour, Marie-Benedicte (2010) Postcolonial denial: why the European court of human rights finds it so difficult to acknowledge racism. In: Clarke, K M and Goodale, M (eds.) Mirrors of justice: law and power in the post-cold war era. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 45-66. ISBN 9780521195379

Dembour, Marie-Benedicte (2009) In the name of the rule of law: the European Court of Human Rights' silencing of racism. In: Bhambra, GK and Shilliam, R (eds.) Silencing human rights: critical engagements with a contested project. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 184-202. ISBN 9780230222762

Zerilli, Filippo M and Dembour, Marie-Benedicte (2007) The house of ghosts: post-socialist restitution and the European court's rendition of human rights in Brumarescu v Romania. In: Dembour, Marie-Benedicte and Kelly, Tobias (eds.) Paths to International Justice: Social and Legal Perspectives. Cambridge University Press, pp. 188-215. ISBN 9780521709200

Dembour, Marie-Benedicte (2001) Following the movement of a pendulum: between universalism and relativism. In: Cowan, Jane, Dembour, Marie-Benedicte and Wilson, RA (eds.) Culture and rights: anthropological perspectives. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, pp. 56-79. ISBN 9780521797351

Cowan, Jane K, Dembour, Marie-Benedicte and Wilson, Richard A (2001) Introduction. In: Cowan, Jane, Dembour, Marie-Benedicte and Wilson, Richard A (eds.) Culture and Rights: Anthropological Perspectives. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521793391

Edited Book

Dembour, Marie-Benedicte and Kelly, Tobias, eds. (2011) Are human rights for migrants? Critical reflections on the status of the illegal migrant in Europe and the United States. Routledge, Abingdon. ISBN 9780415619066

Cowan, Jane, Dembour, Marie-Benedicte and Wilson, Richard, eds. (2001) Culture and Rights: Anthropological Perspectives. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521793391