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Titolo: | Strategic visions for human rights : essays in honour of Professor Kevin Boyle / / edited by Geoff Gilbert, Françoise Hampson and Clara Sandoval |
Pubblicazione: | New York, : Routledge, 2010 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (198 p.) |
Disciplina: | 341.4/8 |
Soggetto topico: | Human rights |
Constitutional law | |
Altri autori: | GilbertGeoff <1958-> HampsonFrançoise Sandoval VillalbaClara BoyleKevin (C. Kevin) |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di contenuto: | Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Common acknowledgements and thanks; List of contributors; Table of cases; Table of treaties; Table of statutes; The common introduction; 1 War and peace in Northern Ireland: Reflections on the contribution of academic and human rights communities; 2 Law and human rights rather than international human rights law; 3 Universality, historical specificity and cultural difference in human rights; 4 Doing human rights: Three lessons from the field; 5 Rights and righteousness: Friends or foes?; 6 Human rights, power, and the protection of free choice |
7 Conscientious objection to military service8 In search of the third freedom - 'everywhere in the world'; 9 Lobbying for rights during the 'war on terror': The American Civil Liberties Union after 9/11; 10 The future of the European Court of Human Rights; Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Strategic Visions for Human Rights takes a multi-disciplinary approach to future directions for human rights. It looks beyond what international human rights treaties have so far established and considers the context in which rights in the twenty-first century might develop to meet needs. The book examines how international law might be utilized to protect groups rather than just individual members of the group and it also calls into question the liberal positivist approach to international law that provides the framework for human rights norms.The book is written and publis |
Titolo autorizzato: | Strategic visions for human rights : essays in honour of Professor Kevin Boyle |
ISBN: | 1-136-91931-7 |
1-282-78101-4 | |
9786612781018 | |
0-203-84432-7 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910822131303321 |
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