The heart of human rights
By: Allen Buchanan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780199325382
Subjects: Human rights; Philosophy; Law
Description: This book provides a moral assessment of the heart of the modern human rights enterprise: the system of international legal human rights. Any attempt to achieve a moral assessment of that enterprise must first evaluate the system of international legal human rights, which includes both legal norms and the institutions that create, interpret, and implement them.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A pluralistic justificatory methodology for human rights --; title: The task of justification --; title: The case for a system of international legal human rights --; title: An ecological view of the legitimacy of international legal human rights institutions --; title: The problematic supremacy of international human rights law --; title: The challenge of ethical pluralism -- -- Conclusions -- Appendix 1:; title: Nonrights norms in major human rights documents -- -- Appendix 2:; title: Results of the investigation.