Cambridge Handbook of New Human Rights : Recognition, Novelty, Rhetoric

The book provides in-depth insight to scholars, practitioners, and activists dealing with human rights, their expansion, and the emergence of 'new' human rights. Whereas legal theory tends to neglect the development of concrete individual rights, monographs on 'new' rights often deal with structural matters only in passing and the issue of 'new' human rights has received only cursory attention in literature. By bringing together a large number of emergent human rights, analysed by renowned human rights experts from around the world, and combining the analyses with theoretical approaches, this book fills this lacuna. The comprehensive and dialectic approach, which enables insights from individual rights to overarching theory and vice versa, will ensure knowledge growth for generalists and specialists alike. The volume goes beyond a purely legal analysis by observing the contestation, rhetorics, the struggle for recognition of 'new' human rights, thus speaking to human rights professionals beyond the legal sphere.

Andreas von Arnauld is Managing Director of the Walther Schücking Institute of International Law at Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel, Germany. He is the author of an established German textbook on international law and numerous other publications on human rights law, peacekeeping, armed conflict, dispute settlement, comparative constitutional law, and foundations of law.

Kerstin von der Decken is a director of the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law at Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel, Germany. She does research and publishes extensively on human rights, focussing on the comparison of human rights systems. She is Visiting Professor at the Law School Wiesbaden at EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht, Universität St Gallen, Switzerland, and Paris-Sorbonne University, Abu Dhabi.

Mart Susi is Professor of Human Rights Law and Head of Law School at Tallinn University, Estonia. He is the editor of several volumes focusing on new media, human rights in the digital domain and philosophy of law. Recently he has proposed the Internet Balancing Formula and held seminars on the topic of protecting human rights in the digital domain in various universities across the globe.