Human rights law
- Aldershot Dartmouth 1996
- 559p xi
Contents: 1. Sources of Human Rights Law: Custom, Jus Cogens, and General Principles / Philip Alston / Bruno Simma; 2. Pull of the Mainstream / Martti Koskenniemi; 3. Comparative Protection of Human Rights in Capitalist and Socialist Third World Countries / Richard Falk; 4. On a Hierarchy of International Human Rights / Theodor Meron; 5. Human Dignity as a Normative Concept / Oscar Schachter; 6. Statement on Human Rights; 7. International Human Rights and Cultural Relativism / Fernando R. Teson; 8. Human Rights and Human Dignity: An Analytic Critique of Non-Western Conceptions of Human Rights / Jack Donnelly; 9. Is the Notion of Human Rights a Western Concept? / R. Panikkar; 10. Human Rights; A Movement in Search of a Theory / Rajni Kothari; 11. Asia's Different Standard / Bilahari Kausikan; 12. Human Rights and Governance: The Asia Debate / Yash Ghai; 13. Human Rights in the Muslim World: Socio-Political Conditions and Scriptural Imperatives / Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im; 14. What's Wrong with Chinese Rights?: Toward a Theory of Rights with Chinese Characteristics / R. P. Peerenboom; 15. Female Subjects of Public International Law: Human Rights and the Exotic Other Female / Karen Engle; 16. Human Rights and Popular Sovereignty: The Liberal and Republican Versions / Jurgen Habermas; 17. Positivism and Communitarianism: Between Human Rights and Democracy / Carlos Santiago Nino; 18. Political Participation as a Human Right / Henry J. Steiner; 19. Emerging Right to Democratic Governance / Thomas M. Franck; 20. Claims by Non-State Groups in International Law / Benedict Kingsbury; 21. Right to Rebel / Tony Honore; 22. Sovereignty and Human Rights in Contemporary International Law / W. Michael Reisman.