The legitimacy of international human rights regimes
Subtitle: legal, political and philosophical perspectives
By: edited by, Andreas Føllesdal, Johan Karlsson Schaffer, Geir Ulfstein
Series: Studies on human rights conventions
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9781107034600
Subjects: Human rights; Effectiveness and validity of law
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: International human rights and the challenge of legitimacy / Johan Karlsson Schaffer, Andreas Føllesdal and Geir Ulfstein; title: The legitimate authority of international human rights : on the reciprocal legitimation of domestic and international human rights / Samantha Besson; title: On the legitimate authority of international human rights bodies / Steven Wheatley; title: Equality, human rights, and political legitimacy / Kristen Hessler; title: The legitimacy of international interpretive authorities for human rights treaties : an indirect-instrumentalist defence / Başak Çali; title: Torture and the politics of legitimation in international law / Ian Hurd; title: Legitimacy, institutional power, and international human rights institutions : a conceptual enquiry / Lynn Dobson; title: Legitimacy, global governance and human rights institutions : inverting the puzzle / Johan Karlsson Schaffer; title: The democratic legitimacy of international human rights conventions : political constitutionalism and the Hirst case / Richard Bellamy; title: Much ado about nothing? : international judicial review of human rights in well-functioning democracies / Andreas Føllesdal.