The Idea of International Human Rights Law

Author: Steven Wheatley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191066877
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 220

Book Description
International human rights law has emerged as an academic subject in its own right, separate from, but still related to international law. This book explains the distinctive nature of this discipline by examining the influence of the idea of human rights on general international law. Rather than make use of a particular moral philosophy or political theory, it explains human rights by examining the way the term is deployed in legal practice, on the understanding that words are given meaning through their use. Relying on complexity theory to make sense of the legal practice of the United Nations, the core human rights treaties, and customary international law, the work demonstrates the emergence of the moral concept of human rights as a fact of the social world. It reveals the dynamic nature of this concept, and the influence of the idea on the legal practice, a fact that explains the fragmentation of international law and special nature of international human rights law.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description

The Fundamentals of International Human Rights Treaty Law

Author: Bertrand G. Ramcharan
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN: 900417608X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
This book has a simple objective: to present the fundamentals of international human rights treaty law in a way that can be helpful to the national leader, official, or legal adviser whose duty it is to help put a human rights treaty regime into the law and practice in his or her country. It is a book of international law, as provided for in the principal international and regional human rights treaties and draws upon the jurisprudence and practice of their monitoring organs.

The Oxford Handbook of International Human Rights Law

Author: Dinah Shelton
Publisher:
ISBN: 0199640130
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1077

Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of International Human Rights Law provides an authoritative and original overview of one of the key branches of international law. Forty contributors comprehensively analyse the role of human rights in international law from a global perspective, examining its origins and principles, and measuring its impact on the world.

The Core International Human Rights Treaties

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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description
This publication reproduces the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the nine core international human rights treaties and their optional protocols in a user-friendly format to make them more accessible, in particular to government officials, civil society, human rights defenders, legal practitioners, scholars, individual citizens and others with an interest in human rights norms and standards.

International Human Rights Law

Author: Riccardo Pisillo Mazzeschi
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303077032X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 557

Book Description
This textbook provides a thorough and systematic overview of human rights law, including the most relevant practice and case law, but also dealing with theoretical issues. It pursues an original approach, seeking to reconcile its didactic purpose with a scientific one, positing that there must be a necessary synergy between these two purposes. Furthermore, the author is convinced that international human rights law should not be studied (as is done in virtually every textbook) as a special legal regime, separate and autonomous from the overall system of international law; but as a regime that is fully integrated into the international legal order. The book’s dominant theme is the interrelationship of international human rights law and general international law. Following this approach, the author has chosen to devote comparatively little content to institutional issues (Part IV) and to instead more intensively explore the structural impact of human rights law on the entire international order (Part I); on the sources (Part II) and obligations (Part III) of general international law; and what constitutes “fundamental” human rights (Part V), without neglecting other rights (Part VI).

International Human Rights Law

Author: Daniel Moeckli
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198860110
Category : Human rights
Languages : en
Pages : 781

Book Description
Written by leading experts in the field, this compelling textbook explores the essentials of international human rights law, from foundational issues to substantive rights and systems of protection. A variety of perspectives bring this multifaceted and sometimes contentious subject to life, making International Human Rights Law the ideal companion for students of human rights. Digital formats This fourth edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats. The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks

An Introduction to International Human Rights Law

Author: Azizur Rahman Chowdhury
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047444027
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 316

Book Description
This book provides a precise concept of international human rights law, its development and the tangible meaning of civil and political rights, economic and social rights. It has highlighted women’s rights, globalization, human rights education, role of the UN and NGOs to protect human rights.

International Human Rights Law in a Global Context

Author: Felipe Gómez Isa
Publisher: Universidad de Deusto
ISBN: 8498308135
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 974

Book Description
The international human rights system remains as dynamic as ever. If at the end of the last century there was a sense that the normative and institutional development of the system had been completed and that the emphasis should shift to issues of implementation, nothing of the sort occurred. Even over the last few years significant changes happened, as this book amply demonstrates. We hope that this Manual makes a contribution to the development of International Human Rights Law and is of interest for those working in the field of promotion and protection of human rights. The book is the result of a joint project under the auspices of HumanitarianNet, a Thematic Network led by the University of Deusto, and the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC, Venice).

International Human Rights in Context

Author: Henry J. Steiner
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 1300

Book Description
This major work offers a range of new cases and materials which help to explain the law of human rights in a broad context.