The Cambridge companion to human rights law / edited by Conor Gearty and Costas Douzinas.

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

1st edition

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Human rights -- Congresses.

Part I. All kinds of everyone

1. Framing the project of international human rights law : reflections on the dysfunctional 'family' of the universal declaration

2. Restoring the 'human' in 'human rights' : personhood and doctrinal innovation in the UN disability convention

3. The poverty of (rights) jurisprudence

Part II. Interconnections

4. Foundations beyond law

5. The interdisciplinarity of human rights

6. Atrocity, law, humanity : punishing human rights violators

7. Violence in the name of human rights

8. Reinventing human rights in an era of hyper-globalization : a few wayside remarks

Part III. Platforms

9. Reconstituting the universal : human rights as a regional idea

10. The embryonic sovereign and the biological citizen : the biopolitics of reproductive rights

11. Spoils for which victor? Human rights within the democratic state

12. Devoluted human rights

13. Does enforcement matter?

Part IV. Pressures

14. Winners and others : accounting for international law's favourites

15. Resisting panic : lessons about the role of human rights during the long decade after 9/11

16. What's in a name? The prohibitions on torture and ill-treatment today

17. Do human rights treaties make enough of a difference?

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9781107602359

xv, 355 p. ; 24 cm