Human rights, democracy, and legitimacy in a world of disorder / edited by Silja Voeneky, University of Freiburg, Gerald L. Neuman, Harvard University, Massachusetts.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Voeneky, Silja, 1969- editor.

Neuman, Gerald L., 1952- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

International law and human rights.

Civil rights.

Democracy.

Legitimacy of governments.

Human rights--European Union countries.

European Union countries.

United States. Constitution--1st-10th Amendments.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 308 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Human Rights, Democracy, and Legitimacy in a World of Disorder brings together respected scholars from diverse disciplines to examine a trio of key concepts that help to stabilize states and the international order. While used pervasively by philosophers, legal scholars, and politicians, the precise content of these concepts is disputed, and they face new challenges in the conditions of disorder brought by the twenty-first century. This volume will explore the interrelationships and possible tensions between human rights, democracy, and legitimacy, from the philosophical, legal, and political perspectives; as well as the role of these concepts in addressing particular problems such as economic inequality, catastrophic risks posed by new technologies, access to health care, regional governance, and responses to mass migration. Made up of essays arising from an interdisciplinary symposium convened at Harvard Law School in 2016, this volume will examine how these trusted concepts may bring order to the global community.

Contents:

Mathias Risse / Human rights as membership rights in the world society

Gerald L. Neuman / Human rights, treaties, and international legitimacy

Frank I. Michelman / Human rights and constitutional rights: a proceduralizing function for substantive constitutional law?

Wilfried Hinsch / Expectation-based legitimacy

Samuel Moyn / The second Bill of Rights : a reconsideration

Silja Voeneky / Human rights and the legitimate governance of existential and global catastrophic risks

I. Glenn Cohen / On the human right to health : statistical lives, contingent persons, and other difficult questions

Alicia Ely Yamin / Democracy, health systems, and the right to health : narratives of charity, markets, and citizenship

Tyler Giannini / Political legitimacy and private governance of human rights : community-business social contracts and constitutional moments

Iris Goldner Lang / Human rights and legitimacy in the implementation of EU asylum and migration law

Vlad Perju / On uses and misuses of human rights in European constitutionalism.

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ISBN:

9781108355704

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