Details

Subject(s)

• Human rights [Browse]

Editor

• Bhuta, Nehal, 1975- [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Festschriften [Browse]

Series

Oxford scholarship online. [More in this series]

Summary note

'The Struggle for Human Rights' evaluates the themes of law, politics, and practice which define international human rights practice and scholarship. The essays examine foundational debates, critiquing the reform of human rights institutions and reflecting on the place of human rights in society.

Notes

Includes index.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Introduction / Nehal Bhuta, Florian Hoffmann, Sarah Knuckey, Frédéric Mégret, and Margaret Satterthwaite
• The Organic Intellectual / Georges Abi-Saab
• Ritual and Ritualism in the International Human Rights System / Hilary Charlesworth
• The Targeted Killing of Jesus Christ / Joseph H. H. Weiler
• Rocking the Human Rights Boat : Reflections by a Fellow Passenger / Martti Koskenniemi
• The State of Human Rights Consciousness : Not Yet Endtimes / Sally Engle Merry
• Human Rights, Legitimacy and Global Governance / Euan MacDonald
• Democracy and Democracies / Henry Steiner
• Human Rights in a Use Case World / Benedict Kingsbury
• Advocating an Ad Hoc Forum for Business Human Rights Disputes, / Bruno Simma and Giorgia Sangiuolo
• A Duty to Negotiate in Good Faith as Part of the Duty to Cooperate to Establish 'An International Legal Order in which Human Rights can be Fully Realized' : the New Frontier of the Right to Development / Olivier de Schutter
• Re-considering Personhood : From 'Civil Death' to 'Civil Life' for Persons with Disabilities / Gerard Quinn
• On Principle and Persuasion : Examining Philip Alston's Contribution to Economic and Social Rights through the Lens of Health / Alicia Yamin
• Teaching Human Rights : Four Key Capabilities / John Tobin
• Alston and Artificial Intelligence / Malcolm Langford
• Towards ASEAN Human Rights Law / Vitit Muntarbhorn
• Implementation of Treaty Obligations : Political Measures Expected of State Parties / Thomas Hammarberg
• Up the Stream without a Paddle : Human Rights Challenges in Mega-Infrastructure Finance and Investment / Mac Darrow
• Dilemmas Facing Commissions of Inquiry / Andrew Clapham
• Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? : Philip Alston / Jose Alvarez
• The Persuasive Authority of Philip Alston's Work for Human Rights Regional Bodies : United Nations Reports, Statements and General Comments Do Matter / Hélène Trigoudja
• Dangerous Proportions : Means and Ends in Non-Finite War / Nehal Bhuta and Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi
• Disrupting Human Rights : Existential Challenges and a New Paradigm for the Field / César Rodríguez-Garavito
• Praxis and the International Human Rights Law Scholar / Obiora Okafor
• Should Human Rights Practice Be Rights-Based? / Sarah Knuckey and Margaret Satterthwaite
• Quite Enough (Still) : Human Rights in (Times of) Crisis / Florian Hoffmann
• Alston in Alabama : Towards a Theory of Praxis in International Human Rights / Frédéric Mégret.

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ISBN

• 0-19-263837-8
• 0-19-191445-2
• 0-19-263836-X

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