The Right to Have Rights - Citizenship, Humanity, and International Law

Zusatztext This rigorous, scholarly and insightful book lingers long in the memory. It offers a necessary corrective to an international legal order that can lose itself in the inspirational language of legal texts and political statements. Informationen zum Autor Alison Kesby is a Research Fellow in public international law at St John's College, Cambridge. Klappentext Is it citizenship of a state or status as a human being that confers human rights on a person? If a person is stateless, how, and in what way, do human rights still apply to them? This book addresses these questions in the context of international human rights law and the notion of the 'right to have rights'. Zusammenfassung Is it citizenship of a state or status as a human being that confers human rights on a person? If a person is stateless, how, and in what way, do human rights still apply to them? This book addresses these questions in the context of international human rights law and the notion of the 'right to have rights'. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: The Right to Have Rights as a 'Place in the World' 2: The Right to Have Rights as Nationality 3: The Right to Have Rights as Citizenship 4: The Right to Have Rights as Humanity 5: The Right to Have Rights as the Politics of Human Rights Conclusion

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• Authors: Alison Kesby, Alison (Research Fellow Kesby, Kesby Alison
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.2012
• EAN: 9780199600823
• ISBN: 978-0-19-960082-3
• No. of pages: 230
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, LAW / International, LAW / Public, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, International Relations, Human rights, civil rights, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law