Human Rights in Emergencies (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Criddle, Evan J.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Public emergencies such as civil wars, natural disasters, and economic crises test the theoretical and practical commitments of international human rights law. During national crises, international law permits states to suspend many human rights protections in order to safeguard national security. States frequently overstep the limits of this authority, violating even peremptory human rights such as the prohibitions against torture and prolonged arbitrary detention. In this volume, leading scholars from law, philosophy and political science grapple with challenging questions concerning the character, scope, and salience of international human rights, and they explain how the law seeks to protect human rights during emergencies. The contributors also evaluate the law's successes and failures, and offer new proposals for strengthening respect for human rights.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316689172
• Artikelnr.: 45475175

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: testing human rights theory during emergencies Evan J.
Criddle; Part I. Designing a Human Rights Regime for Emergencies: 1.
Constrained derogation in positive human rights regimes Gerald L. Neuman;
2. Protecting human rights during emergencies: delegation, derogation, and
deference Evan J. Criddle; 3. Two models of normative frameworks for human
rights during severe emergencies James W. Nickel; Part II. Law, Politics,
and Power: 4. Emergency and escape: explaining derogations from human
rights treaties Emily M. Hafner-Burton, Laurence R. Helfer and Christopher
J. Fariss; 5. The cloak and dagger game of emergency and war Fionnuala Ní
Aoláin; 6. The law of emergency and reason of state Thomas Poole; 7. Human
rights lawyers v. Carl Schmitt William E. Scheuerman; Part III. Emerging
Challenges: 8. Human rights and derogation in peacekeeping: addressing a
legal vacuum within the state of exception Scott Sheeran; 9. Austerity
measures and international economic, social, and cultural rights Diane A.
Desierto.