Law in Context: Human Rights, Southern Voices: Francis Deng, Abdullahi An-Na'im, Yash Ghai and Upendra Baxi

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Law in Context: Human Rights, Southern Voices Francis Deng, Abdullahi An-Na'im, Yash Ghai and Upendra Baxi

By William Twining
Cambridge University Press October 2009

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ISBN-13
9780521130264
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
October 2009
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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A just international order and a healthy cosmopolitan discipline of law need to include perspectives that take account of the standpoints, interests, concerns and beliefs of non-Western people and traditions. The dominant scholarly and activist discourses about human rights have developed largely without reference to these other viewpoints.

Claims about universality sit uneasily with ignorance of other traditions and parochial or ethnocentric tendencies. The object of the book is to make accessible the ideas of four jurists who present distinct ‘Southern’ perspectives on human rights.

  • Presents the key works of four Southern jurists in their own words
  • Sets the works and authors in their historical and political contexts
  • Raises issues of contemporary importance in world politics

Table of Contents

Contents:
1. Introduction
2. Francis Deng
3. Abdullahi An-Na'im
4. Yash Ghai
5. Upendra Baxi
6. Conclusion.
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