The Cambridge companion to human rights law / edited by Conor Gearty and Costas Douzinas.
Publication details: Cambridge : New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012. Description: xv, 355 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9781107016248 (hardback); 9781107602359 (paperback)Subject(s): Human rights -- CongressesLOC classification: K3239.8 | C36 2012Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description | Table of contents onlyItem type | Current library | Class number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations |
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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.