The legalization of human rights
Subtitle: multidisciplinary perspectives on human rights and human rights law
By: edited by Saladin Meckled-García and Başak Cali.
Contributors: Meckled-García, Saladin, 1968-; Cali, Başak, 1974-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Human rights; Human rights -- Psychological aspects; Human rights -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Lost in translation : the human rights ideal and international human rights law / Saladin Meckled-García & Başak Cali; title: The law cannot be enough : human rights and the limits of legalism / Anthony Woodiwiss; title: Putting law in its place : an interdisciplinary evaluation of national amnesty laws / Michael Freeman; title: The virtues of legalization / Jack Donnelly; title: Is the legalization of human rights really the problem : genocide in the Guatemalan Historical Clarification Commission / Richard Ashby Wilson; title: Revisioning the role of law in women's human rights struggles / Ratna Kapur; title: The bureaucratic gaze of international human rights law / David Chandler; title: Veridictive discourses, shame, and judicialization in pursuit of freedom of association rights / Edward Weisband; title: From the theory of discovery to the theory of recognition of indigenous rights : conventional international law in search of homeopathy / Natalia Alvarez Molinero; title: The politics of reading human rights / Upendra Baxi.