Human Rights: Old Problems, New Possibilities - Hardcover

 
9781781002742: Human Rights: Old Problems, New Possibilities
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1781002746 ISBN 13: 9781781002742
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

Reflecting on the various dichotomies through which human rights have traditionally been understood, this book takes account of recent developments in both theories of rights and in international human rights law to present new ways of thinking about some long-standing problems.

Leading legal and political philosophers, social theorists and scholars of international law discuss traditional dilemmas and taxonomies in human rights theory, engaging with contemporary scholarship and current practice. The book examines various tensions, such as those between legal and moral rights, positive and negative rights, universal and particular rights, and group and individual rights.

Encouraging new thinking about conventional understandings of human rights, this book will strongly appeal to international lawyers, legal and political philosophers, as well as graduate students and upper-level undergraduate students in law and philosophy.

Contributors: T. Campbell, P. Emerton, D. Ivison, D. Kinley, E. MacDonald, S. Marks, J. Mowbray, T. Pogge, W. Sadurski, J. Waldron, N. Walker, K. Walton

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About the Author

Edited by David Kinley, Professor of Human Rights Law, Wojciech Sadurski, Challis Professor of Jurisprudence and Kevin Walton, University of Sydney, Australia

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Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1781002746
ISBN 13 
9781781002742
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
272
Editor
Kinley David, Sadurski Wojciech, Walton Kevin

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