Humanity across International Law and Biolaw - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107048184 ISBN 13: 9781107048188

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

The concepts of humanity, human dignity and mankind have emerged in different contexts across international law and biolaw. This raises many different questions. What are the aims for which 'humanity' is mobilised? How do these aims affect the ensuing interpretations of this concept? What are the negative counterparts of humanity, mankind and human dignity? And what happens if a concept developed in one particular context is taken up in another? By bringing together research from international law, biolaw and legal theory, this volume answers such questions by analysing how the concepts overlap and contradict each other across the disciplines. The result is not an examination of what humanity is but rather what it does and what it brings about in a variety of contexts.

About this title

Book Description:

What do the words 'human' and 'humanity' mean, legally speaking? Who operates outside the boundaries of mankind? This book takes the reader through the use of the concept of humanity and its negative counterparts in different fields of law, including international criminal law, biolaw and the law of the sea.

About the Author:

Britta van Beers is an assistant professor in the Department of Legal Theory at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, where her research and teaching involve the legal-philosophical aspects of biomedical regulation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1107048184
• ISBN 13: 9781107048188
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Van Beers Britta, Corrias Luigi, Werner Wouter G.