The Legalization of human rights: multidisciplinary perspectives on human rights and human rights law
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
/ edited by Saladin Meckled-Garcia and Basak Cali
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
London; New York
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
: Routledge
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2006.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
x, 208 p.
Other Physical Details
: ill
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction: human rights legalized - defining, interpreting, and implementing an ideal / Basak Cali and Saladin Meckled-Garcia -- Lost in translation : the human rights ideal and international human rights law / Saladin Meckled-Garcia and Basak Cali -- The law cannot be enough : human rights and the limits of legalism / Anthony Woodiwiss -- Putting law in its place : an interdisciplinary evaluation of national amnesty laws / Michael Freeman -- The virtues of legalization / Jack Donnelly -- Is the legalization of human rights really the problem? : genocide in the Guatemalan Historical Clarification Commission / Richard Ashby Wilson -- Revisioning the role of law in women's human rights struggles / Ratna Kapur -- The bureaucratic gaze of international human rights law / David Chandler -- Verdictive discourses, shame and judicialization in pursuit of freedom of association rights / Edward Weisband -- From the theory of discovery to the theory of recognition of indigenous rights : conventional international law in search of homeopathy / Natalia Alvarez Molinero -- Politics of reading human rights : inclusion and exclusion within the production of human rights / Upendra Baxi