The Cambridge companion to human rights law
By: edited by Conor Gearty and Costas Douzinas
Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9781107016248
Subjects: Human rights; Congresses
Description: Written in a lively and critical format, this book delves into human rights law in a way that is understandable whilst also penetrating. With contributions by world-class academics, this companion looks at the contemporary operation of human rights law and provides succinct coverage of the whole subject.
Notes: Papers presented at a conference at Birbeck College in London in November 2011 -- Preface.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 'Framing the project' of international human rights law : reflections on the dysfunctional 'family' of the universal declaration / Anna Grear; title: Restoring the 'human' in 'human rights' - personhood and doctrinal innovation in the UN disability convention / Gerard Quinn with Anna Artsein-Kerslake; title: The poverty of (rights) jurisprudence / Costas Douzinas; title: Foundations beyond law / Florian Hoffmann; title: The interdisciplinarity of human rights / Abdullahi A. An-Nacim; title: Atrocity, law, humanity : punishing human rights violators / Gerry Simpson; title: Violence in the name of human rights / Simon Chesterman; title: Reinventing human rights in an era of hyperglobalization : a few wayside remarks / Upendra Baxi; title: Reconstituting the universal : human rights as a regional idea / Chaloka Beyani; title: The embryonic sovereign and the biological citizen: the biopolitics of reproductive rights / Patrick Hanafin; title: Spoils for which victor? : human rights within the democratic state / Conor Gearty; title: Devoluted human rights / Chris Himsworth; title: Does enforcement matter? / Gerd Oberleitner; title: Winners and others : accounting for international law's favourites / Margot E Salomon; title: Resisting panic : lessons about the role of human rights during the long decade after 9/11 / Martin Scheinin; title: What's in a name? the prohibitions on torture and ill-treatment today / Manfred Nowak; title: Do human rights treaties make enough of a difference? / Samuel Moyn.