TY - BOOK AU - Gearty,C.A. AU - Douzinas,Costas TI - The Cambridge companion to human rights law SN - 9781107016248 (hardback) AV - K3239.8 C36 2012 PY - 2012/// CY - Cambridge PB - New York : Cambridge University Press KW - Human rights KW - Congresses N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1211/2012023178-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1211/2012023178-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1211/2012023178-t.html ER -