The Cambridge companion to human rights law, edited by Conor Gearty and Costas Douzinas

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The Cambridge companion to human rights law, edited by Conor Gearty and Costas Douzinas

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edited by Conor Gearty and Costas Douzinas

Instantiates

• The Cambridge companion to human rights law

Publication

• Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2012

Note

Papers presented at a conference at Birbeck College in London in November 2011 -- preface

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Contents

'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

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23 cm.

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xv, 355 pages

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9781107016248

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u292984

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• (StEdNL)4896960
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• (OCoLC)795575284