Changing Perceptions of Sovereignty and Human Rights: Essays in Honour of Cees Flinterman

Sterling condition softcover copy, with only a few furled tips, dissipating quickly, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the printed card-stock wrappers, in gate-fold. A fine festschrift. From the publisher's blurb, "On October 1, 2007, professor Cees Flinterman retired as director of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights and the School of Human Rights Research. This book is a liber amicorum, dedicated to the work and person of Cees Flinterman. Some 30 colleagues, all experts in the field of international human rights law, have made contributions to the book. The central theme of this edited volume is the changing relationship between state sovereignty and human rights. The specific themes selected reflect the specific academic interests of Cees Flinterman, and include the African human rights system, monitoring of human rights, women's human rights, economic rights, social rights, cultural rights, the United Nations human rights system, and the role of human rights in times of conflict." Contributions by the two editors and many other recognized experts. The first, Ineke Boerefijn, was associate professor at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM), Utrecht University (1986-2012) and later held the ?Opzij Chair? at the Centre for Gender and Diversity, Maastricht University, where she focused on the human rights aspects of violence against women. The second editor is now emeritus professor in human rights at Utrecht University. She has been working in the field of (comparative) constitutional and administrative law and also African Studies and gender studies. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [4], 1-582 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.…