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The heart of human rights / Allen Buchanan.
LIBRA K3240 .B79 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buchanan, Allen E., 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human rights.
- Law--Philosophy.
- Law.
- Physical Description:
- x, 320 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
- Summary:
- 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. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction 3
- 2 A Pluralistic Justificatory Methodology for Human Rights 50
- 3 The Task of Justification 85
- 4 The Case for a System of International Legal Human Rights 107
- 5 An Ecological View of the Legitimacy of International Legal Human Rights Institutions 173
- 6 The Problematic Supremacy of International Human Rights Law 224
- 7 The Challenge of Ethical Pluralism 249
- 8 Conclusions 274.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199325382
- 0199325383
- 9780199325399
- 0199325391
- 9780199325405
- 0199325405
- OCLC:
- 837921703
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