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The Idea of International Human Rights Law

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2019
ISBN
0198749848, 9780198749844
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7687899 bytes)
Edition
Hardcover
Pages
240\241
Topic
Jurisprudence Law
Time added
2019-04-02 03:01:43

Description

International Human Rights Law has emerged as an academic subject in its own right, separate from, but still related to International Law. This book explains the distinctive nature of this new discipline by examining the influence of the idea of human rights on general international law. Rather than make use of a particular moral philosophy or political theory, it explains 'human rights' by examining the way the term is deployed in legal practice, on the understanding that words are given meaning through their use. Relying on complexity theory to make sense of the legal practice in the United Nations, the core human rights treaties, and customary international law, the work demonstrates the emergence of the moral concept of human rights as a fact of the social world, the dynamic nature of this concept, and the influence of the idea on the legal practice, a fact that explains the fragmentation of international law and special nature of International Human Rights Law.

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