International Law

Beyond Human Rights: The Legal Status of the Individual in International Law

By Anne Peters
Cambridge University Press November 2016

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ISBN-13
9781107164307
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
November 2016
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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A paradigmatic change is occurring, in the course of which human beings are becoming the primary international legal persons.

In numerous areas of public international law, substantive rights and obligations of individuals arguably flow directly from international law. The novel legal status of humans in international law is now captured with a concept borrowed from constitutional doctrine: international rights of the person, as opposed to international law protecting persons.

Combining doctrinal analysis with current practice, this book is the most comprehensive contemporary analysis of the legal status of the individual.

Beyond Human Rights not only deals with the individual and international claims, international humanitarian law, international criminal law and international human rights law, but it also covers fields such as consular law, environmental law, protection of individuals against acts of violence and natural disasters, refugee law and labour law.

Table of Contents

1. Definition of the question
2. Historical theory and practice of the international legal status of the individual
3. The doctrine of the international legal personality of the human being
4. International individual obligations
5. The international responsibility of the individual
6. Individual rights arising from international responsibility
7. Individual rights and duties in the law of armed conflict
8. Protection against acts of violence and forces of nature
9. The international legal status of victims of crime
10. Rights and duties in investment protection law
11. Individual rights in consular law
12. Individual rights in diplomatic protection
13. The legal basis for the international legal personality of the individual - and the question of its independence from the State
14. Human rights and other rights
15. The individualized enforcement of international law
16. Direct effect of norms establishing individual rights and duties
17. The international individual right.
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