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Human Rights Law

Selected Works

2009

International Law

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Devilry, Complicity, And Greed: Transitional Justice And Odious Debt, David C. Gray Aug 2009

Devilry, Complicity, And Greed: Transitional Justice And Odious Debt, David C. Gray

David C. Gray

The doctrine of odious debts came into its full in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century to deal with the financial injustices of colonialism and its stalking horse, despotism. The basic rule, as articulated by Alexander Sack in 1927, is that debts incurred by an illegitimate regime that neither benefit nor have the consent of the people of a territory are personal to the regime and are subject to unilateral recision by a successor government. While the traditional doctrine focused on the nature and circumstances of individual debts, it has been expanded in recent years, moving the focus from the …

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International Treaties On Human Rights, Saumya Uma May 2009

International Treaties On Human Rights, Saumya Uma

Dr. Saumya Uma

The chapter provides an overview of international human rights norms and the dynamic relationship they share with domestic laws and standards. It includes a discussion on international treaties on human rights, how a human rights standard becomes a law and how international conventions are enforced. A clarification of key concepts such as signature, ratification, accession, reservation, declaration, optional protocol, periodic reports and shadow reports help demystify legal jargon related to international human rights. The chapter includes a compilation of information on major conventions, declarations, optional protocols and principles on human rights, in a tabular format, providing the reader with a …

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Unpackaging Human Rights: Concepts, Campaigns & Concerns, Saumya Uma May 2009

Unpackaging Human Rights: Concepts, Campaigns & Concerns, Saumya Uma

Dr. Saumya Uma

This edited volume is a reader on human rights for the use of students of bachelors courses who undergo a foundation course on human rights, as well as for educators, human rights advocates, activists and social scientists. It consists of eight chapters written by six authors who have several years of experience in human rights education. The book has been made reader-friendly and contains relevant photographs and suggested activities.

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Pedagogies Of Comparative Jurisprudence: On The Gleaning Of 'Trans-Cultural Perspectives' From The World's Legal Systems, Maxwell O. Chibundu Dec 2008

Pedagogies Of Comparative Jurisprudence: On The Gleaning Of 'Trans-Cultural Perspectives' From The World's Legal Systems, Maxwell O. Chibundu

Maxwell O. Chibundu

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Who Is The "Human" In Human Rights? The Claims Of Culture And Religion, Peter G. Danchin Dec 2008

Who Is The "Human" In Human Rights? The Claims Of Culture And Religion, Peter G. Danchin

Peter G. Danchin

Modern critiques of international human rights law force us to confront at least two conceptual puzzles in the area of the claims of culture and religion. The first concerns the two concepts, often run together, of the secular (or secularism) and freedom, and the question of how rights—e.g. the right to freedom of conscience and religion—mediate between these purportedly universal or objective positions and the imagined subjective claims of particular religious or cultural norms. The second concerns the question of what we mean by “human equality” and how this idea relates to deeply-situated issues of collective identity and culture. Such …

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