Can human rights survive? / Conor Gearty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gearty, C. A., author.

Series:

Hamlyn lectures

The Hamlyn lectures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Civil rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 174 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

In this set of three essays, originally presented as the 2005 Hamlyn Lectures, Conor Gearty considers whether human rights can survive the challenges of the war on terror, the revival of political religion, and the steady erosion of the world's natural resources. He also looks deeper than this to consider the fundamental question: How can we tell what human rights are? In his first essay, Gearty asks how the idea of human rights needs to be made to work in our age of relativism, uncertainty and anxiety. In the second, he assesses how the idea of human rights has coped with its incorporation in legal form in the UK Human Rights Act, arguing that the record is much better and more democratic than many human rights enthusiasts allow. In his final essay, Gearty confronts the challenges that may destroy the language of human rights for the generations that follow us.

Contents:

The Hamlyn Trust vi

The Hamlyn Lectures ix

2 The crisis of authority 17

3 The crisis of legalism 60

4 The crisis of national security 99

5 Can human rights survive? 140.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781139167369

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