Humanity across International Law and Biolaw (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Beers, Britta van

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The concepts of humanity, human dignity and mankind have emerged in different contexts across international law and biolaw. This raises many different questions. What are the aims for which 'humanity' is mobilised? How do these aims affect the ensuing interpretations of this concept? What are the negative counterparts of humanity, mankind and human dignity? And what happens if a concept developed in one particular context is taken up in another? By bringing together research from international law, biolaw and legal theory, this volume answers such questions by analysing how the concepts overlap and contradict each other across the disciplines. The result is not an examination of what humanity is but rather what it does and what it brings about in a variety of contexts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139862356
• Artikelnr.: 52948403

Inhaltsangabe

1. Probing the boundaries of humanity Britta van Beers, Luigi Corrias and
Wouter Werner; Part I. Crimes against Humanity: 2. Crimes against humanity:
a category hors concours in (international) criminal law? Harmen van der
Wilt; 3. Humanity's exemplary justice: from Hostis to Hostia Humani Generis
Edwin Bikundo; 4. The inhuman stain: representing humanity in international
criminal law Luigi Corrias; 5. Crimes against humanity, simple crime, and
human dignity Roger Brownsword; 6. Crimes against the human species ('Type
II crimes against humanity explained') George Annas; Part II. Human Rights
and Human Dignity: 7. Human remains in French law: the snare of
personification Florence Bellivier; 8. Not in our name! Losing humanity in
current human rights discourse Wouter Veraart; 9. Deciding what is humane:
towards a critical reading of humanity as a normative standard in
international law Rene Urueña; 10. The promise of human dignity, and some
of its juridical consequences, especially for medical criminal law Jan C.
Joerden; Part III. The Commons of Mankind: 11. The concept of humanity and
biogenetics Bartha M. Knoppers and Vural Özdemir; 12. Interdependencies,
conceptualizations of humanity and regulatory regimes Ellen Hey; 13. The
protection of human dignity in research involving human body material
Kristof Van Assche and Sigrid Sterckx; 14. The many faces of humanity: some
concluding remarks Britta van Beers, Luigi Corrias and Wouter Werner.