Examination of state reports / Walter Kälin -- Individual complaints / Geir Ulfstein -- General comments of the Human Rights Committee and their legitimacy / Helen Keller and Leena Grover -- The protection of economic and social rights : a particular challenge? / Urfan Khaliq and Robin Churchill -- Aspects of human rights interpretation by the UN treaty bodies / Birgit Schltter -- UN treaty bodies and the Human Rights Council / Nigel S. Rodley -- The legal status of decisions by human rights treaty bodies in national law / Rosanne van Alebeek and Andre Nollkaemper
Summary
Analysis of the UN human rights treaty bodies, their methods of interpretation, their effectiveness and issues of legitimacy