Human Rights for the 21st Century - Sovereignty, Civil Society, Culture

Zusatztext "This immensely valuable overview of human rights theory and practice offers imaginative recommendations for further developing institutions, including regional human rights regimes and 'hybrid' courts. Stacy confronts head on the principal challenges to human rights development in the 21st Century and displays an amazing grasp of the diverse roles of international human rights initiatives from both a political and a legal perspective." Informationen zum Autor Helen M. Stacy is a Senior Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, and a Senior Lecturer at the Stanford Law School. Klappentext Considers the legal, moral and pragmatic issues at stake when international standards of human rights are trumped by culture and politics, and proposes new approaches to fill the gaps in current human rights theories and practice, namely relational sovereignty, reciprocal adjudication, and regional human rights courts. Zusammenfassung Considers the legal, moral and pragmatic issues at stake when international standards of human rights are trumped by culture and politics, and proposes new approaches to fill the gaps in current human rights theories and practice, namely relational sovereignty, reciprocal adjudication, and regional human rights courts.

Product details

• Authors: Helen Stacy, Helen M Stacy, Helen M. Stacy
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.02.2009
• EAN: 9780804745390
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-4539-0
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Stanford Studies in Human Rights; Stanford Studies in Human Righ; Stanford Studies in Human Righ; Stanford Studies in Human Rights
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education