Saladin Meckled- García / Basak Çali (eds.)

The Legalization of Human Rights

Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Human Rights and Human Rights Law
Herausgeber: Meckled-García, Saladin; Çali, Basak

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Produktbeschreibung

The past few decades have witnessed an increase in the number international human rights treaties, their incorporation into domestic jurisdictions as well as the proliferation of wider public discourse on human rights. 'Human rights' has taken centre stage as an international political goal, however much of this talk is actually about human rights law. This book starts from a new and provocative premise: that the relationship between human rights and their legal expression is not a straightforward one, but needs to be examined more closely. The volume, therefore, scrutinises the extent to which legalisation shapes the human rights ideal, and surveys its ethical, political and practical repercussions. The expert contributors to the volume approach these issues from a variety of different perspectives: political theory/moral theory, anthropology, sociology, international law, international politics and political science and demonstrate a diversity of methodologies. This book invites students and researchers of human rights to question the gap between human rights as a moral and political concept, and human rights law, provoking the reader to consider the possibilities of deliberation on human rights outside of their legal manifestations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 163mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780415361224
• ISBN-10: 0415361222
• Artikelnr.: 21047744

Autorenporträt

Saladin Meckled-Garcia is Director of the MA in Human Rights at UCL. His main area of work is political theory and philosophy, concentrating on human rights and international justice. He has published work in the areas of international justice, human rights, toleration and neutrality, ethics and the market. Basak Cali is a senior research fellow and lecturer in human rights at the School of Public Policy, UCL. She is engaged in research on human rights theory and law. Her current work includes research into the effects of local human rights organisations on domestic human rights debates, and how this is affected by international human rights agencies and organisations.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Human Rights Legalized - Defining, Interpreting, and
Implementing an Ideal 1. Lost in Translation: The Human Rights Ideal and
International Human Rights Law 2. The Law Cannot be Enough: Human Rights
and the Limits of Legalism 3. Putting Law in its Place: An
Interdisciplinary Evaluation of National Amnesty Laws 4. The Virtues of
Legalization 5. Is the Legalization of Human Rights Really the Problem?
Genocide in the Guatemalan Historical Clarification Commission 6.
Revisioning the Role of Law in Women's Human Rights Struggles 7. The
Bureaucratic Gaze of International Human Rights Law 8. Veridictive
Discourses, Shame and Judicialization in Pursuit of Freedom of Association
Rights 9. From the Theory of Discovery to the Theory of Recognition of
Indigenous Rights: Conventional International Law in Search of Homeopathy
10. The Politics of Reading Human Rights

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Introduction: Human Rights Legalized - Defining, Interpreting, and Implementing an Ideal 1. Lost in Translation: The Human Rights Ideal and International Human Rights Law 2. The Law Cannot be Enough: Human Rights and the Limits of Legalism 3. Putting Law in its Place: An Interdisciplinary Evaluation of National Amnesty Laws 4. The Virtues of Legalization 5. Is the Legalization of Human Rights Really the Problem? Genocide in the Guatemalan Historical Clarification Commission 6. Revisioning the Role of Law in Women's Human Rights Struggles 7. The Bureaucratic Gaze of International Human Rights Law 8. Veridictive Discourses, Shame and Judicialization in Pursuit of Freedom of Association Rights 9. From the Theory of Discovery to the Theory of Recognition of Indigenous Rights: Conventional International Law in Search of Homeopathy 10. The Politics of Reading Human Rights