International Human Rights

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-957872-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 1632 Seiten, Format (B × H): 171 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1788 g

International Human Rights is the definitive work on the subject area providing its reader with a comprehensive analysis of this wide and diverse subject area.

A successor to the widely acclaimed International Human Rights in Context, this book is written by Philip Alston and Ryan Goodman who are both world-leading human rights scholars. They have chosen a wide selection of materials from primary and secondary materials to demonstrate and illuminate key themes and carefully guide the reader through each extract with thoughtful and lucid commentary.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alston, Philip

Goodman, Ryan

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Kriegsrecht, Territorialrecht, Humanitäres Recht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- PART A INTRODUCTORY NOTIONS AND BACKGROUND TO INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS REGIME

- 1: Human rights Concepts and Discourse

- 2: The Human Rights Regime: Background and Birth

- PART B NORMATIVE FOUNDATION OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS

- 3: Civil and Political Rights

- 4: Economic and Social Rights

- 5: National Security, Terrorism and the Law of Armed Conflict

- PART C RIGHTS, DUTIES AND DILEMMAS OF UNIVERSALISM

- 6: Rights or Duties as Organizing Concepts

- 7: Conflict in Culture, Tradition and Practices: Challenges to Universalism

- PART D INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS

- 8: The United Nations Human Rights System

- 9: Treaty Bodies: The ICCPR Human Rights Committee

- 10: International Human Rights Fact-Finding

- 11: Regional Arrangements

- PART E STATES AS PROTECTORS AND ENFORCERS OF HUMAN RIGHTS

- 12: Vertical Interpenetration: International Human Rights Law Within States' Legal and Political Orders

- 13: Horizontal Interpenetration: Transnational Influence and Enforcement of Human Rights

- 14: Measuring and Evaluating Human Rights Performance

- PART F CURRENT TOPICS

- 15: Massive Human Rights Tragedies: Prosecutions and Truth Commissions

- 16: Non-State Actors and Human Rights

- 17: Human Rights, Development and Climate Change

Über Autor(innen)

Philip Alston is John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University School of Law

Professor Ryan Goodman is Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Professor of Law at New York University School of Law