Humanity's law
By: Ruti Teitel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780195370911
Subjects: Human rights; International law; Humanitarian law
Description: Teitel presents an analysis of a recent change in international human-rights law. Offering examples from around the world she argues that post-Cold War history has witnessed a key transformation: the normative emphasis of the international legal order has been shifting from state security to human security.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-288) and index.
Table of contents: title: The faces of humanity : origins and jurisprudence; title: The ambit of humanity law : an emerging transnational legal order; title: Peacemaking, punishment, and the justice of war : the humanity law framework and the turn to international criminal justice; title: Protecting humanity : the practice of humanity law; title: Humanity law and the discourse of global justice : the turn to human security; title: Humanity law and the future of international law : debating sovereignty and cosmopolitanism; title: A humanity law of peoples : normative directions and dynamics.