International Human Rights

NOTE EDITORE

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.

SOMMARIO

1 - Human rights Concepts and Discourse2 - The Human Rights Regime: Background and Birth3 - Civil and Political Rights4 - Economic and Social Rights5 - National Security, Terrorism and the Law of Armed Conflict6 - Rights or Duties as Organizing Concepts7 - Conflict in Culture, Tradition and Practices: Challenges to Universalism8 - The United Nations Human Rights System9 - Treaty Bodies: The ICCPR Human Rights Committee10 - International Human Rights Fact-Finding11 - Regional Arrangements12 - Vertical Interpenetration: International Human Rights Law Within States' Legal and Political Orders13 - Horizontal Interpenetration: Transnational Influence and Enforcement of Human Rights14 - Measuring and Evaluating Human Rights Performance15 - Massive Human Rights Tragedies: Prosecutions and Truth Commissions16 - Non-State Actors and Human Rights17 - Human Rights, Development and Climate Change

AUTORE

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

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780199578726
• Dimensioni: 246 x 50.0 x 171 mm Ø 1788 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Pagine Arabe: 1632