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Global governance and the quest for justice. Volume 4, Human rights /

This book - one in the four-volume set, Global Governance and the Quest for Justice - focuses on human rights in the context of ''globalisation'' together with the principle of ''respect for human rights and human dignity'' viewed as one of the foundational co...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lewis, N. Douglas, MacLeod, Sorcha, Brownsword, Roger
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2004.
Colección:Global governance and the quest for justice ; v. 4.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Half Title Page; Half Title verso; Title Page; Title verso; Preface; Contents; List of Contributors; 1. Introduction: Global Governance and Human Rights; Part I: Competing Priorities
  • Are Human Rights Destined to be Second-Best?; 2. The Global ''War on Terrorism'': Democratic Rights Under Attack; INTRODUCTION; THE MILITARY CALL-OUT LEGISLATION; THE TAMPA CASE AND THE 1951 REFUGEE CONVENTION; 'COUNTER-TERRORISM' LAWS; CONCLUSION; 3. Human Rights in Times of Economic Crisis: The Example of Argentina; INTRODUCTION; EMERGENCY MEASURES; JUSTIFICATION OF THE EMERGENCY MEASURES.
  • THE ROLE OF THE JUDICIARYPROBLEMS THAT NEED TO BE RESOLVED IN THE CONTEXT OF THE JUSTICIABILITY OF EMERGENCY MEASURES; CONCLUSION; 4. Collateralism; THE SETTING; THE ROOTS OF COLLATERALISM: FUNCTIONALIST PRINCIPLES; MOVING BEYOND COLLATERALISM: CIVIC PRINCIPLES; COMBINING CIVIC PRINCIPLES AND FUNCTIONAL IMPERATIVES; REVISITING THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN STATE AND NON-STATE ACTOR; CONCLUSION; 5. The (Im)possibility of the European Union as a Global Human Rights Regime; INTRODUCTION; THE RECORD OF THE EU AS A GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS REGIME; THE DESIRABILITY OF TRANSFORMATION; THE CAPACITY FOR CHANGE?
  • CONCLUDING THOUGHTS6. The EU and Human Rights Never the Twain Shall Meet?; INTRODUCTION; THE NEED TO PROTECT HUMAN RIGHTS AGAINST THE EU; CURRENT HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION AGAINST THE EU; POSSIBLE IMPROVEMENTS; CONCLUSION; 7. Environmental Rights and Human Rights: The Final Enclosure Movement; INTRODUCTION: THE FINAL ENCLOSURES MOVEMENT; UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLES AND HUMAN RIGHTS; GROUNDING HUMAN RIGHTS; ECOVIOLENCE AND HUMAN RIGHTS: CAUSATION AND CONSPIRACY; CONCLUSIONS; 8. International Rhetoric and the Real Global Agenda: Exploring the Tension between Interdependence and Globalisation.
  • INTRODUCTIONGLOBALISATION, LAW AND INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY; UNIVERSAL GOAL-SETTING IN THE SHADOW OF GLOBALISATION; CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY AND THE WSSD; MAINTAINING IDEALISM WITHIN INTERNATIONAL LAW; 9. The International Criminal Court: Friend or Foe of International Criminal Justice?; JUSTICE: ICC STYLE; ARTICLE 53 AND THE 'INTERESTS OF JUSTICE' PROVISION; CONCLUSION; Part II: Competing Views of Fundamental Values
  • Law as a Mediator of Rival Conceptions of Human Rights and Human Dignity.
  • 10. Taking Human Rights Seriously: United Kingdom and New Zealand Perspectives on Judicial Interpretation and IdeologiesINTRODUCTION; INTERPRETATION: LANGUAGE; JUDICIAL APPROACHES; JUDICIAL IDEOLOGIES OF LAW; IMPLEMENTATION AND APPLICATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN NEW ZEALAND; HUMAN RIGHTS IN NEW ZEALAND; INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS INSTRUMENTS AND THE JUDICIARY: MATTERS OF INTERPRETATION; FILLING THE GAPS: INTERPRETATION AND THE CREATION OF REMEDIES; CONCLUSION; 11. Globalisation of Justice: for Better or Worse?; INTRODUCTION; WHAT IS AT STAKE AFTER TRANSITION? THREE NORMATIVE PERSPECTIVES.
  • Justice after transition
  • local needs.