Back to Top
Challenges in International Human Rights Law: Volume III
This volume identifies and contributes to the mainstream challenges within international human rights law, such as transitional justice, non-state actors, terrorism and development, as well as to the wider and more systematic range of challenges such as justiciability of social and economic rights, extraterritoriality.
Author(s) | Edited by MennoT. Kamminga. |
---|---|
Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Format | Hardback |
Pages | 820 |
Published in | United Kingdom |
Published | 4 Jul 2014 |
Availability | Available |
This volume identifies and contributes to the mainstream challenges within international human rights law, such as transitional justice, non-state actors, terrorism and development, as well as to the wider and more systematic range of challenges such as justiciability of social and economic rights, extraterritoriality.
Contents: Introduction. Part I Contents and Scope: Universality: On the universality of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Wiktor Osiatynski; Human rights in Islam and international law: a conceptual analysis, Shaheen Sardar Ali; Anti-essentialism
Menno T. Kamminga is Professor of International Law and Director of the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights, Maastricht University, The Netherlands.