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Print Price: $132.00

Format:
Paperback
1400 pp.
171 mm x 246 mm

ISBN-13:
9780199578726

Publication date:
October 2012

Imprint: OUP UK


International Human Rights

Philip Alston and Ryan Goodman

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.

Readership : Students taking courses in international human rights, international law and human rights, as well as international relations.

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 Primary 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. 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. Institutional Design and Compliance
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

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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.

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Special Features

  • The authors are leading academics in the area of International Human Rights, providing the reader with an unparalleled level of authority and insight.
  • The lucid analysis of the key themes places the subject in its socio-political context and highlights the topics being debated today.
  • The carefully chosen diverse range of extracts from primary and secondary legislation, from case law and from academic writings lead the reader to the heart of the subject area.
  • Questions are posed throughout the book to encourage deeper reflection and critical enquiry.