Cambridge Companion to Human Rights Law

Name: Cambridge Companion to Human Rights Law
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ISBN: 9781107016248

ISBN-10: 110701624X

ISBN-13: 9781107016248

Edition: 2012

Authors: Conor Gearty, Costas Douzinas

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The idea of human rights is rightly considered to be one of the very biggest of the big thoughts of the early twenty-first century. The object of this book is to capture a sense of the variety of the platforms within which human rights law is practised today and reflects the dynamic interrelationships that have grown up between these various levels. It also has a critical edge, where the chapters reflect on the way the subject has been handled in the authors sub-field, how it has achieved what has been expected (or has not) or produced unexpected side-effects, with judgments about the efficacy of human rights law (set against the standards of the field itself or some other goals) not being…

Book details

Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/22/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 372
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



Introduction




All Kinds of Everyone



'Framing the project' of international human rights law: reflections on the dysfunctional 'family' of the Universal Declaration




Restoring the 'human' in 'human rights' - personhood and doctrinal innovation in the UN Disability Convention Gerard Quinn with




The poverty of (rights) jurisprudence




Interconnections



Foundations beyond law Florian




The interdisciplinarity of human rights




Atrocity, law, humanity: punishing human rights violators




Violence in the name of human rights




Reinventing human rights in an era of hyperglobalization: a few wayside remarks




Platforms



Reconstituting the universal: human rights as a regional idea




The embryonic sovereign and the biological citizen: the biopolitics of reproductive rights




Spoils for which victor? Human rights within the democratic state




Devoluted human rights




Does enforcement matter?




Pressures



Winners and others: accounting for international law's favourites




Resisting panic: lessons about the role of human rights during the long decade after 9/11




What's in a name? The prohibitions on torture and ill-treatment today




Do human rights treaties make enough of a difference?