Cambridge Companion to Human Rights Law (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Gearty, Conor

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Human rights are considered one of the big ideas of the early twenty-first century. This book presents in an authoritative and readable form the variety of platforms on which human rights law is practiced today, reflecting also on the dynamic inter-relationships that exist between these various levels. The collection has a critical edge. The chapters engage with how human rights law has developed in its various subfields, what (if anything) has been achieved and at what cost, in terms of expected or produced unexpected side-effects. The authors pass judgment about the consistency, efficacy and success of human rights law (set against the standards of the field itself or other external goals). Written by world-class academics, this Companion will be essential reading for students and scholars of human rights law.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107487130
• Artikelnr.: 40568356

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Conor Gearty and Costas Douzinas; Part I. All Kinds of
Everyone: 1. 'Framing the project' of international human rights law:
reflections on the dysfunctional 'family' of the Universal Declaration Anna
Grear; 2. Restoring the 'human' in 'human rights' - personhood and
doctrinal innovation in the UN disability convention Gerard Quinn with Anna
Arstein-Kerslake; 3. The poverty of (rights) jurisprudence Costas Douzinas;
Part II. Interconnections: 4. Foundations beyond law Florian Hoffmann; 5.
The interdisciplinarity of human rights Abdullahi A. An-Nacim; 6. Atrocity,
law, humanity: punishing human rights violators Gerry Simpson; 7. Violence
in the name of human rights Simon Chesterman; 8. Reinventing human rights
in an era of hyper-globalisation: a few wayside remarks Upendra Baxi; Part
III. Platforms: 9. Reconstituting the universal: human rights as a regional
idea Chaloka Beyani; 10. The embryonic sovereign and the biological
citizen: the biopolitics of reproductive rights Patrick Hanafin; 11. Spoils
for which victor? Human rights within the democratic state Conor Gearty;
12. Devoluted human rights Chris Himsworth; 13. Does enforcement matter?
Gerd Oberleitner; Part IV. Pressures: 14. Winners and others: accounting
for international law's favourites Margot E. Salomon; 15. Resisting panic:
lessons about the role of human rights during the long decade after 9/11
Martin Scheinin; 16. What's in a name? The prohibitions on torture and ill
treatment today Manfred Nowak; 17. Do human rights treaties make enough of
a difference? Samuel Moyn.