Human rights work still ‘relevant’

Mainly Human Rights: Studies in Honour of J.J. Cremona. Foundation Internationale de Malte, 2017 (second revised edition).Salvino Busuttil (ed.) The late Ambassador Prof. Salvino Busuttil had concluded, prior to his demise, the second revised edition of Mainly Human Rights: Studies in Honour of J.J. Cremona. Originally this volume was published in 1999. Although nearly two decades have since then passed by, this edited work continues to be of utmost relevance to those persons who study human rights at an international, European and national level. Consisting of 24 chapters penned by world famous experts in their respective area of specialisation – human rights in its manifold guises – this international festschrift in honour of Chief Justice Emeritus Prof. John J. Cremona is here to stay. Prof. Cremona had contributed in diverse ways to the study of law, not only as an academic who taught law at the Faculty of Laws of the University of Malta and who published extensively on the subject but through his appointments in the local and foreign judiciary. In Malta, he served as Chief Justice, while in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) he ended his career there as its...