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This book examines recent critical accounts of human rights and argues that the international human rights movement remains powerful and significant at a time of rising illiberalism. Human rights law remains an important way of challenging injustice and should be strengthened and reformed rather than undermined or abandoned.
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Gráinne de Búrca is Florence Ellinwood Allen Professor of Law at NYU. Previously, she held tenured posts at Harvard Law School, Fordham Law School, the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and Oxford University. Her fields of research are European Union law and international human rights law. She is co-editor of the Oxford University Press series Oxford Studies in European Law, and co-author of the leading OUP textbook EU Law. She is co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON) and serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of International Law, Global Constitutionalism and Legal Studies. She was a President of the International Society of Public Law ICON-S from 2015-2018, and is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.
Riassunto
This book examines recent critical accounts of human rights and argues that the international human rights movement remains powerful and significant at a time of rising illiberalism. Human rights law remains an important way of challenging injustice and should be strengthened and reformed rather than undermined or abandoned.
Testo aggiuntivo
Finally we have a thoughtful book about human rights which captures the vibrancy and successes of the diverse human rights movement. Anyone who wants to understand the real rather than the imagined world of human rights should read de Búrca's study. She makes it clear that struggles for social justice will continue to coalesce around the language of human rights for a long time to come.
