Liberal Way of Law
Subtitle: Legal Perspectives
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9781409467397
Subjects: War (international law); War, religious aspects; Human rights, religious aspects; Islamic law
Description: Examining some of the huge challenges that liberal States faced in the decade after 11 September 2001, the chapters in this book address three aspects of the impact of more than a decade of military action.This book begins by considering four different expressions of universalist moral aspirations, including the prohibition of torture, and discusses migration and 'responsibility to protect, ' as well as the United Nations Human Rights Committee's Concluding Observations about security and liberty in the last decade. International humanitarian law and the problems posed by the territorial character of war and the effects of new technologies and child soldiers are also analysed. Finally, Islamic law and its interface with international law is considered from a new perspective, and contributions in this final part offer a different way of thinking about an authentically Islamic modernisation that would be compatible with Western models of political order --