Allen Buchanan

The Heart of Human Rights

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first in-depth attempt to provide a moral assessment of the heart of the modern human rights enterprise: the system of international legal human rights.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780190654504
• ISBN-10: 0190654503
• Artikelnr.: 47868886

Autorenporträt

Allen Buchanan is the author of eleven books and over one hundred-fifty articles. His work is mainly in Political Philosophy, Philosophy of International Law, and Bioethics. He currently divides his time between Duke University, King's College London Dickson Poon School of Law, and the University of Arizona.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Preface
* Chapter One: Introduction
* Chapter Two: A Pluralistic Justificatory Methodology for Human Rights
* Chapter Three: The Task of Justification
* Chapter Four: The Case for a System of International Legal Human
Rights
* Chapter Five: An Ecological View of The Legitimacy of International
Legal Human Rights Institutions
* Chapter Six: The Problematic Supremacy of International Human Rights
Law
* Chapter Seven: The Challenge of Ethical Pluralism
* Chapter Eight: Conclusions
* Appendix One: Non-Rights Norms in Major Human Rights Documents
* Appendix Two: Results of the Investigation
* Index