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Human rights : between idealism and realism /

Human Rights between Idealism and Realism presents human rights in action, focusing on their effectiveness as legal tools designed to benefit human beings. By combining conceptual analysis with an emphasis on procedures and mechanisms of implementation, this volume provides a multidimensional overvi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tomuschat, Christian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Edición:2nd ed.
Colección:Collected courses of the Academy of European Law ; v. 13/1.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Human Rights between Idealism and Realism presents human rights in action, focusing on their effectiveness as legal tools designed to benefit human beings. By combining conceptual analysis with an emphasis on procedures and mechanisms of implementation, this volume provides a multidimensional overview of human rights. After examining briefly the history of human rights, the author analyses the intellectual framework that forms the basis of their legitimacy. In particular, he covers the concept of universality and the widely used model that classifies human rights into clusters of different 'gen.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xlix, 414 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191552649
019155264X