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Cowell, Frederick (2021) Reservations to Human Rights treaties in recommendations from the Universal Periodic Review: an emerging practice? The International Journal of Human Rights 25 (2), pp. 274-294. ISSN 1364-2987.

Cowell, Frederick (2019) The evolution and design of powers at the UN Commission on Human Rights: the complex legacy of Anti-Apartheid activism. AUC Studia Territorialia 19 (1), pp. 67-92. ISSN 1213-4449.

Cowell, Frederick (2018) Exit clauses in regional human rights systems: the socialisation of human rights law at work? International Organizations Law Review 15 (2), pp. 388-410. ISSN 1572-3739.

Cowell, Frederick (2018) Anti-totalitarian memory: explaining the presence of ‘Rights Abuse’ clauses in International Human Rights Law. Birkbeck Law Review 6 (1), pp. 35-61. ISSN 2052-1308.

Cowell, Frederick (2018) Understanding the legal status of Universal Periodic Review recommendations. Cambridge International Law Journal 7 (1), pp. 164-184. ISSN 2398-9181.

Cowell, Frederick (2017) Inherent imperialism: understanding the legal roots of anti-imperialist criticism of the International Criminal Court. Journal of International Criminal Justice 15 (4), pp. 667-687. ISSN 1478-1387.

Cowell, Frederick and Magini, A. (2017) Collapsing legitimacy: how the crime of aggression could affect the ICC’s legitimacy. International Criminal Law Review 17 (3), pp. 517-542. ISSN 1567-536X.

Cowell, Frederick (2013) Recognising secessionist claims: the organisation of African unity and African union's complex record. Journal of African Union Studies 2 (1&2), pp. 25-42. ISSN 2050-4306.

Cowell, Frederick (2013) The death of the southern African development community tribunal's human rights jurisdiction. Human Rights Law Review 13 (1), pp. 153-167. ISSN 1744-1021.

Book Review

Cowell, Frederick (2018) Book Review: The International Criminal Court and Africa. [Book Review]

Book Section

Cowell, Frederick (2022) Identifying custom in universal periodic review recommendations. In: Merkouris, P. and Kammerhofer, J. and Arajärvi, N. (eds.) The Theory, Practice and Interpretation of Customary International Law. The Rules of Interpretation of Customary International Law. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, p. 320. ISBN 9781316516898.

Cowell, Frederick (2022) The temporality of collective memory and the authority of the European Court of Human Rights. In: McNeilly, K. and Warwick, B. (eds.) The Times and Temporalities of International Human Rights Law. Human Rights Law in Perspective. Hart Publishing. ISBN 9781509949922. (In Press)

Cowell, Frederick (2021) State shaming and the social theory of peremptory norms in international law: the possibility of the prohibition of nuclear proliferation as a Jus Cogens norm. In: Maia, C. and Collin, J.-M. (eds.) Nuclear Weapons and International Law: Visions of a Plural World. Edições Universitárias Lusófonas. ISBN 9789897571626.

Cowell, Frederick (2017) Defining and understanding the case against the Human Rights Act. In: Cowell, Frederick (ed.) Critically Examining the Case Against the 1998 Human Rights Act. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138223820.

Bowring, Bill (2017) England’s terror of the French Revolution: the historical roots of resistance to the rights of man and the case against the Human Rights Act. In: Cowell, Frederick (ed.) Critically Examining the Case Against the 1998 Human Rights Act. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138223820.

Cowell, Frederick (2017) ‘Why should criminals have human rights?’: the underserving rights holder and the case against the Human Rights Act. In: Cowell, Frederick (ed.) Critically Examining the Case Against the 1998 Human Rights Act. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138223820.

Cowell, Frederick (2014) Defensive relativism: universalism, sovereignty, and the postcolonial predicament. In: Dahwan, N. (ed.) Decolonizing Enlightenment: Transnational Justice, Human Rights and Democracy in a Postcolonial World. Politik und Geschlecht 24. Leverkusen, Germany: Budrich Press, pp. 261-275. ISBN 9783847400561.

Cowell, Frederick (2013) LGBT rights in commonwealth forums: politics, pitfalls and progress? In: Lennox, C. and Waits, M. (eds.) Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in The Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change. London, UK: Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Human Rights Consortium, pp. 125-143. ISBN 9780957354883.

Book

Cowell, Frederick, ed. (2017) Critically examining the case against the 1998 Human Rights Act. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138223820.

Thesis

Cowell, Frederick (2017) Claims of imperialism: the common legal basis of anti-imperialism in international and regional human rights organisations. [Thesis] (Unpublished)