International Human Rights Lexicon

by SusanMarks (Author), Andrew Clapham (Author)

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2005
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This book presents a wide-ranging survey of the scope and significance of international human rights law. Arranged thematically in alphabetical format, it side-steps the traditional categories of human rights law, to investigate rights in the specific contexts in which they are invoked, debated, and considered. This book is an informative and accessible guide to key issues confronting international human rights law today.

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This book presents a wide-ranging survey of the scope and significance of international human rights law. Arranged thematically in alphabetical format, it side-steps the traditional categories of human rights law, to investigate rights in the specific contexts in which they are invoked, debated, and considered. This book is an informative and accessible guide to key issues confronting international human rights law today.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 472
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 19 May 2005
ISBN 10: 0198764138
ISBN 13: 9780198764137

Media Reviews

..one book, twenty-eight short essays on human rights issues in alphabetical order, one voice, and two international legal scholars. She, the pure academician from Cambridge University with a marked taste for political thought, whose post-modernist doctoral inquiry into democratic governance-The Riddle of All Constitutions-gained her wide doctrinal respect that her later work has not diminished. He, the Ph.D. from E.U.I. in Florence who accepted the call of Amnesty International to be their representative before the United Nations in New York prior to becoming a professor at the GIIS in Geneva in the late 1990s and who continues to produce a remarkable record of scholarly writings, including his latest, the monumental Human Rights Obligations of Non-State Actors. * Human Rights Quarterly *
This is human rights law (and beyond) as seen by to young reputed cosmopolitan legal scholars in the early stages of the twenty-first century. * Human Rights Quarterly *
a rich and informed survey of debates, problems and illustrations of how human rights penetrate all spheres of life will fascinate people from many different disciplines. * Modern Law Review An excellent scholarly and introductory guide for graduate and doctoral students as well as practitioners[and]...also accessible to anyone interested in approaching the contemporary world through the lenses of human rights...this comprehensive critical approach to human rights is bound to have future editions in the years to come. *

Author Bio

Andrew Clapham is Professor of Public International Law at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva 3nd an Associate Academic Member of Matrix Chambers. Susan Marks is University Lecturer in the Faculty of Law of the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.