The Cultural Dimension of Human Rights

Herausgeber: Vrdoljak, Ana Filipa

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Produktbeschreibung

The intersections between culture and human rights have engaged some of the most heated and controversial debates across international law and theory. To what extent should the law permit cultural defences to general rules? What role does human rights law have in the protection of minority cultures? This volume examines such pivotal questions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 163mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780199642120
• ISBN-10: 0199642125
• Artikelnr.: 39338792

Autorenporträt

Ana Filipa Vrdoljak is Professor of Law and Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney. She is a member of the International Law Association's Cultural Heritage Law Committee and Secretary of the International Cultural Property Society (U.S.).

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* PART I
* 1: Pasquale Annichino and Olivier Roy: Religion, Culture and Human
Rights
* 2: Ana Filipa Vrdoljak: Liberty, equality, diversity: Culture, Human
Rights and International Law
* PART II
* 3: Gaetano Pentassuglia: Protecting Minority Groups Through Human
Rights Courts: The Interpretive Role of the European and
Inter-American Jurisprudence
* 4: Siegfried Wiessner: Culture and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
* PART III
* 5: Evangelia Psychogiopoulou: The EU and Cultural Rights
* 6: Tania Voon: Culture, Human Rights and the WTO
* 7: Yvonne Donders: Cultural Pluralism in International Human Rights
Law: The Role of Reservations
* 8: Federico Lenzerini: Suppressing and Remedying Offences against
Culture