The Legitimacy of International Human Rights Regimes: Legal, Political and Philosophical Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781107034600 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 322 str.

Andreas Fllesdal & Johan Karlsson Schaffer

Opis

Traverses the disciplines of law, political philosophy and international relations in assessing the normative legitimacy of international human rights regimes.

Spis treści

1. International human rights and the challenge of legitimacy Johan Karlsson Schaffer, Andreas Føllesdal and Geir Ulfstein; 2. The legitimate authority of international human rights: on the reciprocal legitimation of domestic and international human rights Samantha Besson; 3. On the legitimate authority of international human rights bodies Steven Wheatley; 4. Equality, human rights, and political legitimacy Kristen Hessler; 5. The legitimacy of international interpretive authorities for human rights treaties: an indirect-instrumentalist defence Başak Çalı; 6. Torture and the politics of legitimation in international law Ian Hurd; 7. Legitimacy, institutional power, and international human rights institutions: a conceptual enquiry Lynn Dobson; 8. Legitimacy, global governance and human rights institutions: inverting the puzzle Johan Karlsson Schaffer; 9. The democratic legitimacy of international human rights conventions: political constitutionalism and the Hirst case Richard Bellamy; 10. Much ado about nothing? International judicial review of human rights in well-functioning democracies Andreas Føllesdal.