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International Human Rights offers sophisticated and though-provoking reflections on the current state of the art in relation to the international regime governing human rights.

This internationally acclaimed interdisciplinary coursebook provides a diverse range of carefully edited primary and secondary materials alongside extensive text, editorial commentary, and study questions.

Written by two globally eminent human rights scholars, and providing an unrivalled level of analysis and breadth of materials, International Human Rights is the essential companion for students, researchers, advocates, and practitioners.

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Philip Alston, John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law, New York University, Ryan Goodman, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Professor of Law, New York University

Philip Alston is John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University School of Law

Ryan Goodman is Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Professor of Law at New York University School of Law

A. Introductory Notions and Background to the International Human Rights Regime
1. Human rights concepts and discourse
2. The human rights regime: background and birth
B. Normative Foundation of International Human Rights
3. Civil and political rights
4. Economic and social rights
5. National security, terrorism, and the law of armed conflict
C. Rights, Duties and Dilemmas of Universalism
6. Rights or duties as organising concepts
7. Conflict in culture, tradition and practices: challenges to universalism
D. International Human Rights Organizations
8. The United Nations human rights system
9. Treaty bodies: the ICCPR Human Rights Committee
10. International human rights fact finding
11. Regional arrangements
E. States as Protectors and Enforcers of Human Rights
12. Vertical interpenetration: international human rights law within states' legal and political orders
13. Horizontal interpenetration: transnational influence and enforcement of human rights
14. Measuring and evaluating human rights performance
F. Current Topics
15. Massive human rights tragedies: prosecutions and truth commissions
16. Non-state actors and human rights
17. Human rights, development and climate change

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