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Minorities in International Law is the latest publication by Gaetano Pentassuglia, a professor of international law at the University of Munich Law School and former EU Research Fellow. The book is part of Pentassuglia’s previous work with the European Centre for Minority Issues [ECMI] in Germany and is the first volume of ECMI’s series on Minority Issues, a series dedicated to providing a practical guide to the instruments and legal mechanisms that exist at the national, regional and international levels for the protection of minorities. Pentassuglia’s book offers a comprehensive overview of the treatment of minorities within international law, with three main objectives. First, it outlines the substantive entitlements available to minorities by contrasting them to the wider background of international human rights. Second, it describes and underscores the role of international institutions in the development of protective regimes. Finally, it addresses special problems and questions that arise in the context of minority rights, such as the difficulty of arriving at a universal definition of the term “minority”. Minorities in International Law is a book that remains introductory in nature, even when considering the scope of the endeavor, the complexity of issues addressed and Pentassuglia’s critical assessments. As such, the book appeals to a wide audience, such as practitioners, minority rights advocates, legal experts, journalists and students of international law or related disciplines. In keeping with its broad appeal, the book contains detailed references to relevant literature at the end of each chapter, as well as an appendix that sets out some of the documents discussed in the text. Pentassuglia’s central premise is that minority rights form an integral part of the international protection of human rights. For instance, Article 27 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1 [ICCPR] places minority rights within the wider context of human rights entitlements. However, the author explains that minority rights and human rights are not identical notions. Whereas human rights are recognized as the legal right of all human beings to protect their dignity, minority rights are recognized as the exclusive benefit of minority groups. Despite this difference, Pentassuglia uses human rights norms as a framework within which to evaluate the definition, scope and protection of minority rights in international law. The first component of this framework is the subject entitled to the right recognized in a legal rule and, within the limits of his procedural capacity, who is entitled to take permissible action to secure any given right. The second component focuses on the duty-holder, usually a state, obliged to fulfill the subject’s demands or

GAETANO PENTASSUGLIA, MINORITIES IN INTERNATIONAL LAW: AN INTRODUCTORY STUDY (STRASBOURG: COUNCIL OF EUROPE PUBLISHING, 2002)