Protecting Human Rights: Instruments and Institutions (Ha3013/Pd) - Hardcover

 
9780199264063: Protecting Human Rights: Instruments and Institutions (Ha3013/Pd)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0199264066 ISBN 13: 9780199264063
Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2003

Synopsis

This volume addresses two important issues surrounding human rights in both law and politics. First, it considers the content and form of human rights. What is and what is not to be counted as a human right, and what does it mean to identify a right as a human right? Secondly it considers the implementation of human rights. What are the most effective and legitimate means of promoting human rights? Both of these issues raise profound moral questions within legal and political philosophy. The contributions within this volume address the conceptual and moral issues deriving from the expansion of rights discourse and explore the variety of institutional mechanisms that may be adopted to protect and further human rights. At the same time, they illustrate the complex relationship between defining human rights and adopting particular modes of institutional implementation.

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About the Author

Tom Campbell is Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University.


Jeffrey Goldsworthy is Professor of Law in the Faculty of Law, Monash University.


Adrienne Stone is a Fellow in the Law Program at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.


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Publisher
OUP Oxford
Publication date
2003
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0199264066
ISBN 13 
9780199264063
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
366
Editor
Campbell Tom, Goldsworthy Jeffrey, Stone Adrienne