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Author : Arnaud Hoc
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1404756067
Author : Joe Hoover
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198782803
Reconstructing human rights -- Human rights and the ethics of uncertainty -- Human rights and the politics of uncertainty -- Human rights as situationist ethics -- Human rights as agonistic politics -- Human rights as democratizing ethos -- Conclusion
Author : Charles Villa-Vicencio
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1992-08-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521426286
Behold, a new thing
Author : Joe Hoover
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191085550
We live in a human-rights world. The language of human-rights claims and numerous human-rights institutions shape almost all aspects of our political lives, yet we struggle to know how to judge this development. Scholars give us good reason to be both supportive and sceptical of the universal claims that human rights enable, alternatively suggesting that they are pillars of cross-cultural understanding of justice or the ideological justification of a violent and exclusionary global order. All too often, however, our evaluations of our human-rights world are not based on sustained consideration of their complex, ambiguous and often contradictory consequences. Reconstructing Human Rights argues that human rights are only as good as the ends they help us realise. We must attend to what ethical principles actually do in the world to know their value. So, for human rights we need to consider how the identity of humanity and the concept of rights shape our thinking, structure our political activity and contribute to social change. Reconstructing Human Rights defends human rights as a tool that should enable us to challenge political authority and established constellations of political membership by making new claims possible. Human rights mobilise the identity of humanity to make demands upon the terms of legitimate authority and challenges established political memberships. In this work, it is argued that this tool should be guided by a democratising ethos in pursuit of that enables claims for more democratic forms of politics and more inclusive political communities. While this work directly engages with debates about human rights in philosophy and political theory, in connecting our evaluations of the value of human rights to their worldly consequences, it will also be of interest to scholars considering human rights across disciplines, including Law, Sociology, and Anthropology.
Author : Steven L. B. Jensen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Decolonization
ISBN : 1316532747
This book reinterprets the history of international human rights by arguing that the 1960s were crucial to their breakthrough
Author : Pinghua Sun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 364239664X
Author : Samantha Besson
Publisher : Collège de France
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9782722605824
States are no longer alone on the international scene. Other institutions intervene alongside States, and even sometimes in their place, such as international organizations, multinational corporations, non-governmental organizations, regions or global cities. Still, one would look in vain for clear indications in international law, including for the basic principles of an “international law of institutions” that could address the three fundamental questions of social and political organization that are representation, regulation and responsibility. What institutions may act in whose name internationally? What are the conditions for their actions to bind us legally and have the legitimacy to do so? And what institutions should be held responsible, by whom and how, in case of violation of international law? The time has come to reconstruct the international institutional order.
Author : Dr Theo Gavrielides,Professor Vasso Artinopoulou
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781409470731
This book takes bold steps in forming much-needed philosophical foundations for restorative justice through deconstructing and reconstructing various models of thinking. It challenges current debates through the consideration and integration of various disciplines such as law, criminology, philosophy and human rights into restorative justice theory, resulting in the development of new and stimulating arguments. Topics covered include the close relationship and convergence of restorative justice and human rights, some of the challenges of engagement with human rights, the need for the recognition of the teachings of restorative justice at both the theoretical and the applied level, the Aristotelian theory on restorative justice, the role of restorative justice in schools and in police practice and a discussion of the humanistic African philosophy of Ubuntu. With international contributions from various disciplines and through the use of value based research methods, the book deconstructs existing concepts and suggests a new conceptual model for restorative justice. This unique book will be of interest to academics, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners.
Author : Laura F. Edwards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107008793
This book provides a succinct and accessible account of the critical role of legal and constitutional issues of the American Civil War.
Author : Michelle Frances Carmody
Publisher : Springer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319783932
In Argentina and elsewhere in Latin America, decades after the fall of authoritarian regimes in the 1970s, transitional justice has proven to be anything but transitional—it has become a cornerstone of state policy and a powerful tool of state formation. Contextualizing cultural and political shifts in Argentina after the 1976 military coup with comparisons to other countries in the Southern Cone, Michelle Frances Carmody argues that incorporating human rights practices into official policy became a way for state actors to both build the authority of the state and manage social conflict, a key aim of post-Cold War democracies. By examining the relationship between transitional justice and the Latin American political order, this book illuminates overlooked dimensions of state formation in the age of human rights.
Author : Wattier HOC,Arnaud Hoc,Stéphanie Wattier,Geoffrey Willems
Publisher : Emile Bruylant
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2802754025
Human rights were reaffirmed and internationalised after the world conflicts which marked H the 20th century and provide both the foundation of democracy and a bulwark against its excesses. The universal affirmation of these rights in the 1948 Universal Declaration and their subsequent embodiment in national constitutions marks the beginning of a spectacular evolution rendering them the main mode of expression for social and political demands and a common denominator in legal systems in contemporary democracies. In this way, human rights act as a bridge between culture, politics and law and a hinge between legal systems. Their spectacular impact on all areas of the law has provoked contrasting reactions: some denounce it as risking the disintegration of the law; others rather insist upon its reconstructive potential. Yet in every instance, human rights are doubtless one of the main features of legal postmodernity. The 4th ACCA Conference which took place in Louvain-la-Neuve in May 2015 aimed to contribute to the debate on human rights as a potential basis for reevaluation and/or reconstruction of the law. During the morning session, several speakers (academics or/and practitioners specialising in human rights) offered general presentations on this topic. In the afternoon session, participants had the opportunity to take part in workshops dedicated to specific topics: I. Human Rights and relationships between legal systems; II. Human Rights and procedural law; III. Human Rights and values; IV. Human Rights and Information Society; V. Human Rights and Investment; VI. Human Rights and Public Policy.
Author : Manuela Melandri
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780429880988
The right to self-determination has played a crucial role in the process of assisting oppressed people to put an end to colonial domination. Outside of the decolonization context, however, its relevance and application has constantly been challenged and debated. This book examines the role played by self-determination in international law with regard to post-conflict state building. It discusses the question of whether self-determination protects local populations from the intervention of international state-builders in domestic affairs. With a focus on the right as it applies to the people of an independent state, it explores how self-determination concerns that arise in the post-conflict period play out in relation to the reconstruction process. The book analyses the situation in Somalia as a means of drawing out the impact and significance of the legal principle of self-determination in the process of rebuilding post-conflict institutions. In so doing, it seeks to highlight how the relevance of self-determination is often overlooked in this context.
Author : John R. Howard
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0791440893
Examines the significant role played by the U.S. Supreme Court in shaping race relations and affecting civil rights in the period between the end of the Civil War and the 1954 Brown decision.
Author : Julian Maxwell Hayter,George R. Goethals
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781788112857
This collection of original essays and commentary considers not merely how history has shaped the continuing struggle for racial equality, but also how backlash and resistance to racial reforms continue to dictate the state of race in America. Informed by a broad historical perspective, this book focuses primarily on the promise of Reconstruction, and the long demise of that promise. It traces the history of struggles for racial justice from the post US Civil War Reconstruction through the Jim Crow era, the Civil Rights and Voting Rights decades of the 1950s and 1960s to the present day.
Author : Kate Masur
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781324005940
Finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in History Finalist for the 2022 Lincoln Prize Winner of the 2022 John Nau Book Prize in American Civil War Era History One of NPR's Best Books of 2021 and a New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2021 A groundbreaking history of the movement for equal rights that courageously battled racist laws and institutions, Northern and Southern, in the decades before the Civil War. The half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well as freedom. Beginning in 1803, many free states enacted laws that discouraged free African Americans from settling within their boundaries and restricted their rights to testify in court, move freely from place to place, work, vote, and attend public school. But over time, African American activists and their white allies, often facing mob violence, courageously built a movement to fight these racist laws. They countered the states’ insistences that states were merely trying to maintain the domestic peace with the equal-rights promises they found in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. They were pastors, editors, lawyers, politicians, ship captains, and countless ordinary men and women, and they fought in the press, the courts, the state legislatures, and Congress, through petitioning, lobbying, party politics, and elections. Long stymied by hostile white majorities and unfavorable court decisions, the movement’s ideals became increasingly mainstream in the 1850s, particularly among supporters of the new Republican party. When Congress began rebuilding the nation after the Civil War, Republicans installed this vision of racial equality in the 1866 Civil Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment. These were the landmark achievements of the first civil rights movement. Kate Masur’s magisterial history delivers this pathbreaking movement in vivid detail. Activists such as John Jones, a free Black tailor from North Carolina whose opposition to the Illinois “black laws” helped make the case for racial equality, demonstrate the indispensable role of African Americans in shaping the American ideal of equality before the law. Without enforcement, promises of legal equality were not enough. But the antebellum movement laid the foundation for a racial justice tradition that remains vital to this day.
