The Cambridge companion to human rights law /
The Cambridge companion to human rights law /
Human rights law
edited by Conor Gearty and Costas Douzinas.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- xv, 355 p. ; 23 cm.
- Cambridge companions .
- Cambridge companions. .
Papers presented at a conference at Birbeck College in London in November 2011 -- preface.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'Framing the project' of international human rights law : reflections on the dysfunctional 'family' of the universal declaration / Anna Grear -- Restoring the 'human' in 'human rights' -- personhood and doctrinal innovation in the UN disability convention / Gerard Quinn with Anna Artsein-Kerslake -- The poverty of (rights) jurisprudence / Costas Douzinas -- Foundations beyond law / Florian Hoffmann -- The interdisciplinarity of human rights / Abdullahi A. An-Nacim -- Atrocity, law, humanity : punishing human rights violators / Gerry Simpson -- Violence in the name of human rights / Simon Chesterman -- Reinventing human rights in an era of hyperglobalization : a few wayside remarks / Upendra Baxi -- Reconstituting the universal : human rights as a regional idea / Chaloka Beyani -- The embryonic sovereign and the biological citizen: the biopolitics of reproductive rights / Patrick Hanafin -- Spoils for which victor? : human rights within the democratic state / Conor Gearty -- Devoluted human rights / Chris Himsworth -- Does enforcement matter? / Gerd Oberleitner -- Winners and others : accounting for international law's favourites / Margot E Salomon -- Resisting panic : lessons about the role of human rights during the long decade after 9/11 / Martin Scheinin -- What's in a name? the prohibitions on torture and ill-treatment today / Manfred Nowak -- Do human rights treaties make enough of a difference? / Samuel Moyn.
9781107016248 (hbk.) 110701624X (hbk.) 9781107602359 (pbk.) 1107602351 (pbk.)
2012023178
016168264 Uk
Human rights--Congresses.
K3239.8 / .C36 2012
341.48
Papers presented at a conference at Birbeck College in London in November 2011 -- preface.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'Framing the project' of international human rights law : reflections on the dysfunctional 'family' of the universal declaration / Anna Grear -- Restoring the 'human' in 'human rights' -- personhood and doctrinal innovation in the UN disability convention / Gerard Quinn with Anna Artsein-Kerslake -- The poverty of (rights) jurisprudence / Costas Douzinas -- Foundations beyond law / Florian Hoffmann -- The interdisciplinarity of human rights / Abdullahi A. An-Nacim -- Atrocity, law, humanity : punishing human rights violators / Gerry Simpson -- Violence in the name of human rights / Simon Chesterman -- Reinventing human rights in an era of hyperglobalization : a few wayside remarks / Upendra Baxi -- Reconstituting the universal : human rights as a regional idea / Chaloka Beyani -- The embryonic sovereign and the biological citizen: the biopolitics of reproductive rights / Patrick Hanafin -- Spoils for which victor? : human rights within the democratic state / Conor Gearty -- Devoluted human rights / Chris Himsworth -- Does enforcement matter? / Gerd Oberleitner -- Winners and others : accounting for international law's favourites / Margot E Salomon -- Resisting panic : lessons about the role of human rights during the long decade after 9/11 / Martin Scheinin -- What's in a name? the prohibitions on torture and ill-treatment today / Manfred Nowak -- Do human rights treaties make enough of a difference? / Samuel Moyn.
9781107016248 (hbk.) 110701624X (hbk.) 9781107602359 (pbk.) 1107602351 (pbk.)
2012023178
016168264 Uk
Human rights--Congresses.
K3239.8 / .C36 2012
341.48