Europe and the Americas
Subtitle: transatlantic approaches to human rights
By: edited by Erik André Andersen and Eva Maria Lassen
Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leiden, the Netherlands
Language: eng
Number of pages: 421
ISBN-13: 9789004279230; 9789004279247
Subjects: Human rights; International cooperation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 414-417) and index.
Table of contents: title: When peers are pressing for progress : the clash between Hersch Lauterpacht and John Humphrey over the Universal Declaration of Human Rights / Eva Maria Lassen; title: Race, social struggles and "human" rights : contributions from the Global South / Julia Suárez-Krabbe; title: The Latin-American influence on European human rights law / Jonas Christoffersen; title: The Jamaican broker : UN diplomacy and the transformation of international human rights, 1962-1968 / Steven L. B. Jensen; title: The past discontinued : American and European views on international criminal tribunals, 1918-1945 / Erik André Andersen; title: From "rights talk" to "human rights talk" : transatlantic dialogues on human rights / Helle Porsdam; title: Law as identity : different identities and different human rights conceptions in Europe and the United States / Sten Schaumburg-Müller; title: Regime change in a transitional society : the case of Ukraine / Srdjan Darmanovic; title: Human rights in and around Cuba : monolithic discourse or actual alternatives? / Jan Gustafsson; title: The Latin American Spring : new constitutions, rights and obligations? / Annali Kristiansen; title: Torture : Europe and the Americas / Manfred Nowak and Karolina Miriam Januszewski; title: The loaded gun : the Obama Administration and the legacy of George W. Bush's "War on Terror" / Niels Bjerre-Poulsen; title: The extraterritorial use of armed drones and international human rights law : different views on legality in the US and Europe? / Peter Vedel Kessing; title: Losing the right to have rights : EU externalization of border control / Martin Lemberg-Pedersen.