Human rights
Subtitle: old problems, new possibilities
By: edited by David Kinley, Professor of Human Rights Law, University of Sydney, Australia; Wojciech Sadurski, Challis Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Sydney, Australia; Kevin Walton, Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney, Australia
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cheltenham,UK; Northampton, MA, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9781781002742; 9781781002759
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Human rights
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Human rights : moral or legal? / Tom Campbell; title: Human rights as moral rights / Kevin Walton; title: Are we violating the human rights of the world's poor? / Thomas Pogge; title: Human rights and political agency : on Pogge's analysis of human rights violations today / Duncan Ivison; title: Universalism and particularism in human rights : trade-off or productive tension? / Neil Walker; title: The particularism of human rights discourse / Patrick Emerton; title: Democracy and human rights : good companions / Jeremy Waldron; title: Recasting the relationship : human rights, democracy and constitutionalism as material topoi of legitimacy / Euan MacDonald; title: Autonomy, identity and self-knowledge : a new 'solution' to the liberal-communitarian 'problem'? / Jacqueline Mowbray; title: Four human rights myths / Susan Marks; title: Where hope meets expectation between human rights idealism and pragmatism / David Kinley.