Rescuing Human Rights: A Radically Moderate Approach

ISBN-13: 9781108417488 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 240 str.

Hurst Hannum

Opis

Focuses on understanding human rights as they really are and their proper role in international affairs.

Recenzje

'… an informative, well-crafted scholarly exploration that aims to rescue international human rights law from overzealous human rights advocates, regarding desirability of interpretations, strategies of human rights application, and consequences of rights enforcement … Hannum has illuminated and sharpened these and related questions in a clearly written, self-styled 'pragmatic' approach. In this well-documented inquiry, he is clear about his aim to warn against the overextension of human rights law into areas of human harms and state policy where it does not belong, while preserving its legal authority and necessity in areas where it does … Hannum frames his distinctions between appropriate and overreaching applications of human rights law in a well-documented survey of contemporary human rights legal trends and issues … Hannum takes us on a well-organized journey of doctrine, sources, precedents, and 'realistic' interpretations of human rights law flowing in its appropriate riverbed, setting out his 'radically moderate approach' to rescuing human rights law … Rescuing is a richly sourced, well written, provocative argument about the best formulation of 'limits' of modern human rights law. It deserves serious reading.' Henry J. Richardson III, American Journal of International Law

Spis treści

Preface; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction: assumptions and principles; 2. Crime and (occasional) punishment; 3. The importance of government, for better or worse; 4. Human rights and … whatever; 5. Undermining old rights with new ones: you can't always get what you want; 6. Women, sex, and gender; 7. The flexibility of human rights norms: universality is not uniformity; 8. Human rights hawks; 9. The indispensable state? The United States and human rights; 10. The way forward: less is more; Index.