Full title: The Cambridge companion to human rights law / edited by Conor Gearty and Costas Douzinas. [electronic resource]

Author/creator: Gearty, C. A, Douzinas, Costas, 1951-.

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Record Identifier: 74VKVBWrE50X

Language: English

Formats: ebooks

Contents: 1 online resource (xv, 355 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)., , , , '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.

Publishers: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Notes: Cambridge companions to law Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). Includes bibliographical references and index.

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DDC: 341.4/8

MMS ID: 991024240903102626