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Book Review: Damian Gonzalez-Salzberg and Loveday Hodson (eds), Research Methods for International Human Rights Law: Beyond the Traditional Paradigm (Routledge, 2020, viii + 279 pp, £120) ISBN 978–1–138-60,355-4 (hb) from £22.50978–0–429-46,897-1 (ebk), Human Rights Law Review, Volume 20, Issue 1, March 2020, Pages 205–208, https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngaa008
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I have often thought that if I had 10 Euro for every research proposal I have read that suggests that the author wishes to take ‘a human rights approach’ to a particular topic, I would be a wealthy professor. I am not only referring here to proposed student dissertations: this is, or certainly used to be, also a very common trope within legal scholarship in the academy more generally. Thanks to Damian Gonzalez-Salzberg and Loveday Hodson, I now have an easy point of reference when I patiently explain that there is no such thing as a human rights approach in the singular. This edited collection brings together ample evidence to show that there are many approaches to (legal) research that owe their focus or inspiration to human rights. Even better, the book specifically sets an agenda that immediately takes the reader beyond legal doctrinal approaches, or the ‘traditional paradigm’ of the book’s subtitle.