The Cambridge companion to human rights law / edited by Conor Gearty and Costas Douzinas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gearty, C. A., editor.

Douzinas, Costas, 1951- editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--Congresses.

Human rights.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 355 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

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PDF

Summary:

Human rights are considered one of the big ideas of the early twenty-first century. This book presents in an authoritative and readable form the variety of platforms on which human rights law is practiced today, reflecting also on the dynamic inter-relationships that exist between these various levels. The collection has a critical edge. The chapters engage with how human rights law has developed in its various subfields, what (if anything) has been achieved and at what cost, in terms of expected or produced unexpected side-effects. The authors pass judgment about the consistency, efficacy and success of human rights law (set against the standards of the field itself or other external goals). Written by world-class academics, this Companion will be essential reading for students and scholars of human rights law.

Contents:

'Framing the project' of international human rights law : reflections on the dysfunctional 'family' of the universal declaration / Anna Grear

Restoring the 'human' in 'human rights' : personhood and doctrinal innovation in the UN disability convention / Gerard Quinn with Anna Artsein-Kerslake

The poverty of (rights) jurisprudence / Costas Douzinas

Foundations beyond law / Florian Hoffmann

The interdisciplinarity of human rights / Abdullahi A. An-Nacim

Atrocity, law, humanity : punishing human rights violators / Gerry Simpson

Violence in the name of human rights / Simon Chesterman

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

Reconstituting the universal : human rights as a regional idea / Chaloka Beyani

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

Spoils for which victor? Human rights within the democratic state / Conor Gearty

Devoluted human rights / Chris Himsworth

Does enforcement matter? / Gerd Oberleitner

Winners and others : accounting for international law's favourites / Margot E. Salomon

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

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

Do human rights treaties make enough of a difference? / Samuel Moyn.

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ISBN:

9781139060875

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