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Human Rights and Justice: Philosophical, Economic, and Social Perspectives

Human Rights and Justice: Philosophical, Economic, and Social Perspectives

Author: Melissa Labonte; Kurt Mills
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781138036789
Published In: June 2018
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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The relationship between human rights and justice is significant, deep, and ultimately contested. The two terms themselves – human rights and justice – have experienced both conceptual and operational pushback from many quarters in recent years.

Although an understanding of justice is inherent in broad human rights discourses, there is no clear consensus on how to integrate and reconcile these concepts – both as a means of advancing knowledge and as a mechanism for the development of sound and effective policy at the global, regional, and national levels. Further, expansions of the boundaries of both human rights and justice make any clear and settled understanding of the relation difficult to ascertain. This volume tackles these issues in a coherent and complementary manner. It examines a range of philosophical, economic, and social perspectives that are key to understanding the nature of the linkages between human rights and justice, written by scholars who are at varying stages of their careers, and whose ongoing work has sparked dialogue and exchange within and across these fields.

This work will be of interest to students and scholars of human rights, international relations and ethics.

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Introduction

Melissa Labonte and Kurt Mills

What kind of justice for human rights?

Ann Marie Clark

Freeing human rights from the moral requirement of feasibility

Benedict Rumbold

Conflating human rights and economic justice—a genealogy of the right to development

Daniel J. Whelan

Accessing Justice? India’s Right to Education Act

Rebecca M. Klenk

Responsibility for climate justice: a human rights approach to global responsibility for environmental change and impact