The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights Law

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 Artsein-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-Na'im;

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 hyperglobalization: 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.