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

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

Author: Anne Peters
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781316615935

Published In: May 2018
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only
Hardback Edition ISBN: 9781107164307

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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.

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