Political and Legal Approaches to Human Rights

ISBN-13: 9780367886981 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 246 str.

Tom Campbell; Kylie Bourne

Opis

This book contributes to the understanding and analysis of ‘political approaches’ to human rights, including consideration of their diversity, and discussion of their strengths and weaknesses. The contributors present a balance between those who favour some version of the political approach and those who are dubious about the perceived advantage

Spis treści

Contents

List of Contributors

Introduction Tom Campbell and Kylie Bourne

Part One: Identifying Political Approaches

1. Tom Campbell, ‘Human Rights Morality and Human Rights Practice: An Interactive Approach’

2 Caroline West, ‘Human Rights for Non-Believers’

3 Duncan Ivison, ‘Traces of Recognition: Rights and Political Realism’

4 Jovana Davidovic, ‘A Practical Account of the Concept of Human Rights’

5 Suzy Killmister, ‘Deriving Human Rights from Human Dignity: A Novel Political Approach’

Part Two: Critiquing Political Approaches

6 John Tasioulas, ‘Exiting the Hall of Mirrors: Morality and Law in Human Rights’

7 Denise Meyerson, ‘The Mismatch between Theory and Practice in Recent Theorizing about Human Rights’

8 Jim Allan, ‘Human Rights, Doubts and Democracy’

Part Three: Accommodating Economic Rights

9 Octavio Luiz Motta Ferraz, ‘Two Conceptions of Social and Economic Rights: Basic Needs versus Equality’

10 David Kinley, ‘The Politics of Human Rights and Finance’

11 Laura Valentini, ‘Human Rights, the Political View and Transnational Corporations: An Exploration’

Part Four: Beyond the Nation State?

12 Sonu Bedi, ‘The Absence of Horizontal Effect in Human Rights Law: Domestic Violence and the Intimate Sphere’

13 Seumas Miller, ‘The "Human" Right to Self-Defence: Natural, Institutional or Political Right?’

14 Kylie Bourne, ‘Beitz’s Two Level Model of Human Rights and Statelessness’

Conclusion

Rhiannon Neilsen and Tom Campbell, ‘An Overview of Political Approaches to Human Rights’

Index

　

O autorze

Tom Campbell is a Research Associate at Charles Sturt University, Australia, formerly Professorial Fellow in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE), previously Professor of Law at The Australian National University and prior to that Professor of Jurisprudence at The University of Glasgow, UK. He has published extensively on Legal Theory and Political Philosophy.

Dr Kylie Bourne is Senior Research Assistant at the Regional Australia Institute. She was formerly Research Assistant at Charles Sturt University and prior to that, Research Management Coordinator in the College of Law at the Australian National University.