International human rights law : returning to universal principles / Mark Gibney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gibney, Mark, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Physical Description:

xi, 161 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]

Summary:

This clear and compelling text confront the cominant thinking on human rights, taking issue with the notion adopted by all states and even many academics that human rights obligations extend no further than their own territorial borders. Mark Gibney critiques cases from the U.S. Supreme Court, the International Court of Justice, and the European Court of Human Rights, arguing for a much broader reading of state responsibility on the basis that current law misses most of the ways in which states fail to protect human rights standards. Finally Gibney takes up the issue of human rights enforcement, unquestionably the weakest aspect of international human rights law. He proposes several practical models that could begin to provide victims the "effective remedy" promised by the law itself. The book concludes that there is a moral and legal imperative to return to the universal principles human rights were founded on. And rather than witnessing the end of human rights as some have suggested-we should see our times as the true beginning. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

Step one : responsibility

Step two : territory

Step three : accountability

Step four : remedy

Conclusion: The end of human rights

or just the start?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Edition:

Revision of: 9780742556294 Gibney, Mark. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2008

ISBN:

9781442249097

1442249099

9781442249103

1442249102

OCLC:

907391402