International Human Rights in Context : Law, Politics, Morals
ISBN: 9780199279425 | 019927942X
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 9/24/2007
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This widely-acclaimed coursebook provides an analytical and thought-provoking approach to international human rights law from renowned authorities in the field. An excellent selection of cases and materials from a broad range of sources accompany in the book on line alongside notes and questions in the text encouraging students to think critically about the law. Accessible to students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, the book is designed to provide trenchant legal analysis whilst considering the wider social and cultural context o... MORE
| Contemporary Human Rights: Background And Content | |
| Introduction to Human Rights Issues and Discourse | |
| Up to Nuremberg: Background to the Human Rights Movement | |
| Civil and Political Rights | p. 4 |
| Economic and Social Rights | |
| Rights, Duties and Cultural Relativism | |
| Conflicting Traditions and Rights: Illustrations | |
| International Human Rig... MORE | |
| The Need for International Institutions and their Challenge to Notions of Sovereignty | |
| Intergovernmental Enforcement of Human Rights Norms: The United Nations System | |
| Treaty Organs: The ICCPR Human Rights Committee | |
| Regional Arrangements | |
| Civil Society: Human Rights NGOs and Other Groups | |
| States As Protectors And Enforcers Of Human Rights | |
| Interpenetration of International and National Systems: Internal Protection of Human Rights by States | |
| Enforcement by States against Violator States | |
| Current Topics | |
| Massive Human Rights Tragedies: Prosecutions and Truth Commissions | |
| Self-determination and Autonomy Regimes | |
| Globalization, Development, and Human Rights | |
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Henry J. Steiner is Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law and Director of the Law School Human Rights Program, Harvard University.
Philip Alston is Professor of Law at New York University Law School.
Ryan Goodman is J. Sinclair Armstrong Assistant Professor on International, Foreign and Comparative Law at the Harvard Law School.
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