Human Rights in Philosophy and Practice
Published on 28. July 2001
Book
Hardback
632 pages
978-0-7546-2210-9 (ISBN)
Description
The essays in this highly cosmopolitan collection were selected from over 250 contributions presented at the 19th World Congress in Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR) held in New York in 1999. They represent a cross-section of contemporary work on human rights derived from eleven different countries. In addition to a philosophical discussion of key problems relating to the philosophy and practice of human rights throughout the world, there are specialist groups of essays on constitutional rights, minority rights, state sovereignty and human rights, global justice and self-determination, as well as a number which reflect the diversity of the political and legal development in the field of human rights in various regions of the world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
1076 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7546-2210-9 (9780754622109)
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Content
The philosophy of rights: libertarianism, motivation and rights, Samantha Brennan; human rights, truth, mcintyre and Putman's pragmatism, Thrassyvoulos Papadopolous; towards a natural justice of rights relationships, John A, Humbach; collective moral responsibility, Seumas Miller; are human rights universal?, Yanaki B. Stoilov. Constitutional rights: the Hungarian constitutional court, Gabor Halmai; on constitutional social rights, Rodolfo Arango; modest judicial restraint, Theodore M. Benditt; democratizing human rights, Tom Campbell; judicial protection of human rights in India, Meenakshi Jain. State sovereignty and human rights: democratic and global challenges to the concepts of "sovereignty" and "intervention", Charles Stampford; state sovereignty and the common good - towards justifying international intervention, R.A. Akanmidu. Global justice: nation-building and global justice, Kok-Chor Tan; retroactive justice - trials for human rights violations under a prior regime, Makoto Usami; left libertarianism and global justice, N. Tideman, P. Vallentyne; global ecological citizenship and human rights, Peter D. Swan. Self-determination: theraputic jurisprudence and the rights of self-determination, James M. Cooper; the ethics of self-determination - democratic, national, regional, Omar Dahbour. Diverse experiences of human rights: human rights and human responsibilities - an East Asian perspective, Chongko Choi; legal moralism and the European courts of human rights, Richard Nunan; the paradox of remedies, Louis E. Wolcher; the success of feminist jurisprudence in India, Nidhi Gupta.