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The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights Law

The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights Law

Author: Conor Gearty; Costas Douzinas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107602359
Published In: November 2012
Format: Paperback , 392 pages
Jurisdiction: International ? Disclaimer:
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Human rights are considered one of the big ideas of the early twenty-first century. This book presents in an authoritative and readable form the variety of platforms on which human rights law is practiced today, reflecting also on the dynamic inter-relationships that exist between these various levels. The collection has a critical edge. The chapters engage with how human rights law has developed in its various subfields, what (if anything) has been achieved and at what cost, in terms of expected or produced unexpected side-effects. The authors pass judgment about the consistency, efficacy and success of human rights law (set against the standards of the field itself or other external goals). Written by world-class academics, this Companion will be essential reading for students and scholars of human rights law.

• A coherent, succinct and fresh view on contemporary human rights law

• Chapters are written by leading experts in each of the sub-fields that makes up the field as a whole

• Engages with human rights from a policy-oriented as well as a scholarly perspective, while always keeping scholarship to the forefront of the discussion and analysis of the relevant 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;