The Idea of International Human Rights Law

ISBN-13: 9780198749844 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 240 str.

Steven Wheatley

Opis

What is international human rights law? This question is addressed in this volume as Steven Wheatley explores how different types of human rights - moral, political, and legal - should be understood and considers how the complex systems theory of human rights can help to resolve current human rights controversies.

Recenzje

This is a thought-provoking book with an innovative argument that is not only relevant in terms of IHRL but also in the application of complexity theory to legal research and IL. Overall, it presents a compelling argument that will hopefully spark a debate about the use of complexity theory approaches in the analysis of IL and IHRL. For scholars interested in human rights and complexity theory, this book makes an important contribution to the literature in offering a way to conceptualise the UN and the IL system as a complex network, and also opens the door for the inclusion of new methodologies for analysing the formulation and interpretation of legal rules in IHRL and IL.

O autorze

Steven Wheatley is Professor of International Law at the University of Lancaster. He has written extensively on the subject of human rights, including Democracy, Minorities and International Law (CUP, 2005) and The Democratic Legitimacy of International Law (Hart, 2010).