The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights Law
ISBN: 9781107602359 | 1107602351
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 1/31/2013
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Captures the essence of the multi-layered subject of human rights law in a way that is authoritative, critical and scholarly.
Written in a lively and critical format, this book delves into human rights law in a way that is understandable whilst also penetrating. With contributions by world-class academics, this Companion looks at the contemporary operation of human rights law and provides succinct coverage of the whole subject.
Human rights are considered one of the big ideas of the ea... MORE
Written in a lively and critical format, this book delves into human rights law in a way that is understandable whilst also penetrating. With contributions by world-class academics, this Companion looks at the contemporary operation of human rights law and provides succinct coverage of the whole subject.
Human rights are considered one of the big ideas of the ea... MORE
| Introduction | |
| All Kinds | |
| 'Framing the project' of international human rights law: reflections on the dysfunctional 'family' of the Universal Declaration | |
| Restoring the 'human' in 'human rights' - personhood and doctrinal innovation in the UN Disability Convention Gerard Quinn with | |
| The poverty of (rights) jurisprudence | |
| Interconnections | |
| Foundations beyond law | |
| The interdisciplinarity of human rights | |
| Atrocity, law, humanity: punishing human rights violators | |
| Violence in the name of human rights | |
| Reinventing human rights in an era of hyperglobalization: a few wayside remarks | |
| Platforms | |
| Reconstituting the universal: human rights as a regional idea | |
| The embryonic sovereign and the biological citizen: the biopolitics of reproductive rights | |
| Spoils for which victor? Human rights within the democratic state | |
| Devoluted human rights | |
| Does enforcement matter? | |
| Pressures | |
| Winners and others: accounting for international law's favourites | |
| Resisting panic: lessons about the role of human rights during the long decade after 9/11 | |
| What's in a name? The prohibitions on torture and ill-treatment today | |
| Do human rights treaties make enough of a difference? | |
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