"[This book] brings together ... contemporary thinkers on the theory and practice of human rights. The first two chapters, by Anthony Grayling and Steven Pinker, are primarily historical: they trace the emergence of human rights to a particular time and place, and they try to sh…
Carl Wellman takes a broad approach to human rights by discussing all three types - moral, international and national - at length. At the same time, he pays special attention to the moral reasons that are relevant to each kind of human rights.
Are human rights universal or the product of specific cultures? Is democracy a necessary condition for the achievement of human rights in practice? This book surveys the religious politics of human rights across the world's major regions, political systems, and faith traditions.
Introduction -- Historical overview -- Liberty and equality -- The rule of law -- Access to justice -- Right of resistance -- Life, security, detention, torture, liberty, and Villeinage -- Property, taxation, elections, work, and slavery -- Freedom of expression -- Private and f…
What are the connections between conceptions of rights found in English law and those found in bills of rights around the World? How has English Common Law influenced the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) 1948 and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) 1950? T…
"The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled is a watershed development in the fields of intellectual property and human rights. As the first international legal instrument to establish ma…
"The debate over what makes human beings unique has raged for hundreds of years, and many believe it is urgent to convince others to accept their particular definition of what it is to be human. Despite these dire warnings, nobody has empirically examined whether particular defi…
"This book explores the legal, ethical, and other policy consequences of three core structural features of international human rights law: the focus on individual rights instead of duties; the division of rights into substantive and nondiscrimination categories; and the use of p…
Reconstructing human rights -- Human rights and the ethics of uncertainty -- Human rights and the politics of uncertainty -- Human rights as situationist ethics -- Human rights as agonistic politics -- Human rights as democratizing ethos -- Conclusion
We live in a human rights world. The language of human rights claims and numerous human rights institutions shape almost all aspects of our political lives, yet we struggle to know how to judge this development. Scholars give us good reason to be both supportive and sceptical of…
The fully revised and updated Third Edition of 'Remedies in International Human Rights Law' provides a comprehensive analysis of the law governing international and domestic remedies for human rights violations. It reviews and examines the texts and the jurisprudence on this key…
