Michael J. Perry

Toward a Theory of Human Rights

Religion, Law, Courts

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Toward a Theory of Human Rights makes a significant contribution both to human rights studies and to constitutional theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9780521684224
• ISBN-10: 0521684226
• Artikelnr.: 25044101

Autorenporträt

Michael J. Perry currently holds a Robert W. Woodruff Chair at Emory University, where he teaches in the law school. Perry is the author of over sixty articles and essays. He is also the author of nine books, including Love and Power: The Role of Religion and Morality in American Politics (1991), The Idea of Human Rights (1998), We the People: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Supreme Court (1999), and Under God? Religious Faith and Liberal Democracy (2003).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Morality of Human Rights: 1. The morality of human rights
2. The morality of human rights: a religious ground
3. The morality of human rights: a nonreligious ground?
Part II. From Morality to Law: 4. From morality to law
5. Capital punishment
6. Abortion
7. Same-sex unions
Part III. From Law to Courts: 8. Protecting human rights in a democracy: what role for the courts?
9. How should the Supreme Court rule?: capital punishment, abortion, and same-sex unions.