Special issue human rights : new possibilities/new problems

Volume 56 of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society presents the latest scholarship on human rights. The work contained in this volume examines both the theoretical dimensions and dilemmas of human rights in the modern world and particular cases in which the problems and possibilities of human rights...

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Other Authors Sarat, Austin
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2011.
SeriesStudies in law, politics, and society ; v. 56.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781780522531
ISSN1059-4337 ;
DOI10.1108/S1059-4337(2011)56
Physical Description1 online resource (x, 232 p.) : ill.

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Table of Contents:
  • Self-ownership and self-alienation : three case studies / Ethan MacAdam
  • Constitutive paradoxes of human rights : an interpretation in history and political theory / John R. Wallach
  • Finding a place for marginal migrants in the international human rights system / Leila Kawar
  • Why the underutilization of child rights in global mobilization? : the cases of female genital cutting practices and user fees for education / Elizabeth Heger Boyle, Hollie Nyseth
  • The bottom up journey of 'defamation of religion' from Muslim states to the United Nations : a case study of the migration of anti-constitutional ideas / Robert C. Blitt
  • The state action doctrine in international law / Laura A. Dickinson.