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The Cambridge companion to human rights law
Gearty Conor
The Cambridge companion to human rights law - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2012 - 355p xiii
Table of contents
Introduction Conor Gearty and Costas Douzinas; Part I. All Kinds of Everyone: 1. 'Framing the project' of international human rights law: reflections on the dysfunctional 'family' of the Universal Declaration Anna Grear; 2. Restoring the 'human' in 'human rights' - personhood and doctrinal innovation in the UN disability convention Gerard Quinn with Anna Arstein-Kerslake; 3. The poverty of (rights) jurisprudence Costas Douzinas; Part II. Interconnections: 4. Foundations beyond law Florian Hoffmann; 5. The interdisciplinarity of human rights Abdullahi A. An-Nacim; 6. Atrocity, law, humanity: punishing human rights violators Gerry Simpson; 7. Violence in the name of human rights Simon Chesterman; 8. Reinventing human rights in an era of hyper-globalisation: a few wayside remarks Upendra Baxi; Part III. Platforms: 9. Reconstituting the universal: human rights as a regional idea Chaloka Beyani; 10. The embryonic sovereign and the biological citizen: the biopolitics of reproductive rights Patrick Hanafin; 11. Spoils for which victor? Human rights within the democratic state Conor Gearty; 12. Devoluted human rights Chris Himsworth; 13. Does enforcement matter? Gerd Oberleitner; Part IV. Pressures: 14. Winners and others: accounting for international law's favourites Margot E. Salomon; 15. Resisting panic: lessons about the role of human rights during the long decade after 9/11 Martin Scheinin; 16. What's in a name? The prohibitions on torture and ill treatment today Manfred Nowak; 17. Do human rights treaties make enough of a difference? Samuel Moyn.
9781107602359
1. Human Rights - Congresses - U K
341.481000 / GEA
The Cambridge companion to human rights law - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2012 - 355p xiii
Table of contents
Introduction Conor Gearty and Costas Douzinas; Part I. All Kinds of Everyone: 1. 'Framing the project' of international human rights law: reflections on the dysfunctional 'family' of the Universal Declaration Anna Grear; 2. Restoring the 'human' in 'human rights' - personhood and doctrinal innovation in the UN disability convention Gerard Quinn with Anna Arstein-Kerslake; 3. The poverty of (rights) jurisprudence Costas Douzinas; Part II. Interconnections: 4. Foundations beyond law Florian Hoffmann; 5. The interdisciplinarity of human rights Abdullahi A. An-Nacim; 6. Atrocity, law, humanity: punishing human rights violators Gerry Simpson; 7. Violence in the name of human rights Simon Chesterman; 8. Reinventing human rights in an era of hyper-globalisation: a few wayside remarks Upendra Baxi; Part III. Platforms: 9. Reconstituting the universal: human rights as a regional idea Chaloka Beyani; 10. The embryonic sovereign and the biological citizen: the biopolitics of reproductive rights Patrick Hanafin; 11. Spoils for which victor? Human rights within the democratic state Conor Gearty; 12. Devoluted human rights Chris Himsworth; 13. Does enforcement matter? Gerd Oberleitner; Part IV. Pressures: 14. Winners and others: accounting for international law's favourites Margot E. Salomon; 15. Resisting panic: lessons about the role of human rights during the long decade after 9/11 Martin Scheinin; 16. What's in a name? The prohibitions on torture and ill treatment today Manfred Nowak; 17. Do human rights treaties make enough of a difference? Samuel Moyn.
9781107602359
1. Human Rights - Congresses - U K
341.481000 / GEA