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• Title:Examining critical perspectives on human rights / edited by Rob Dickinson [and others].
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Dickinson, Rob, 1952-
  
• Published/Created:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: K3240 .E964 2012
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Human rights.
  Human rights--Great Britain.
  
• Medical Subjects: Human Rights
  
• Description:xi, 292 pages ; 24 cm.
  
• Summary:"Examining Critical Perspectives on Human Rights sets out a practical and theoretical overview of the future of human rights within the United Kingdom and beyond. A number of internationally renowned scholars respond to David Kennedy's contribution 'The International Human Rights Movement: Still Part of the Problem?' from a range of different perspectives. With its combination of theory and practice of international and domestic human rights at this key juncture in the human rights project, it is relevant to all scholars and practitioners with an interest in human rights"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781107006935 (hbk.)
  1107006937 (hbk.)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I Introduction
  1. Examining critical perspectives on human rights: an introduction / C. R. G. Murray
  2. international human rights regime: still part of the problem? / David Kennedy
  pt. II Domestic human rights perspectives
  3. What is the point of human rights law? / K. D. Ewing
  4. If you cannot change the rules of the game, adapt to them: United Kingdom responses to the restrictions set by Article 3 ECHR on national security' deportations / David Bonner
  5. right to security - securing rights or securitising rights? / Liora Lazarus
  6. Of fortresses and caltrops: national security and competing models of rights protection / C. R. G. Murray
  pt. III International human rights law perspectives
  7. rule of law and the role of human rights in contemporary international law / Elena Katselli
  8. construction of the constitutional essentials of democratic politics by the European Court of Human Rights following Sejdic and Finci / Steven Wheatley
  9. Universal human rights: a challenge too far / Rob Dickinson
  pt. IV Theoretical perspectives on human rights
  10. reality and hyper-reality of human rights: public consciousness and the mass media / Eric Heinze
  11. Human rights and the struggle for change: a study in self-critical legal thought / Christine Bell
  12. Lawfare and the international human rights movement / Richard Mullender.