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The Cambridge companion to human rights law

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Papers presented at a conference at Birbeck College in London in November 2011 -- Preface.

Contents

'Framing the project' of international human rights law : reflections on the dysfunctional 'family' of the universal declaration / Anna Grear
Restoring the 'human' in 'human rights' : personhood and doctrinal innovation in the UN disability convention / Gerard Quinn with Anna Artsein-Kerslake
The poverty of (rights) jurisprudence / Costas Douzinas
Foundations beyond law / Florian Hoffmann
The interdisciplinarity of human rights / Abdullahi A. An-Nacim
Atrocity, law, humanity : punishing human rights violators / Gerry Simpson
Violence in the name of human rights / Simon Chesterman
Reinventing human rights in an era of hyperglobalization : a few wayside remarks / Upendra Baxi
Reconstituting the universal : human rights as a regional idea / Chaloka Beyani
The embryonic sovereign and the biological citizen : the biopolitics of reproductive rights / Patrick Hanafin
Spoils for which victor? Human rights within the democratic state / Conor Gearty
Devoluted human rights / Chris Himsworth
Does enforcement matter? / Gerd Oberleitner
Winners and others : accounting for international law's favourites / Margot E. Salomon
Resisting panic : lessons about the role of human rights during the long decade after 9/11 / Martin Scheinin
What's in a name? The prohibitions on torture and ill-treatment today / Manfred Nowak
Do human rights treaties make enough of a difference? / Samuel Moyn.

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