International Human Rights (The Successor to International Human Rights in Context : Law, Politics and Morals)

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Description
This course book is a successor to International Human Rights in Context (Oxford University Press, 1996, 2000 and 2008). The lead author of all three editions of that volume was Professor Henry Steiner, who founded and directed Harvard Law School's Human Rights Program from 1984 to 2005. Henry was the driving force behind those volumes, and they stand as a tribute to his depth of understanding, his endlessly probing intellect and his vision of how human rights should be taught. although this book has been prepared without Henry's participation, it retains the essential structure and the basic undertanding of the issues that were reflected in the predecessor volume. The current authors take this opportunity to express their gratitude to him for his immense contribution to the past, as well as the new, version of this course book.
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Contents
Part A : Introductory Notions and Background to the International Human Rights Regime
1.    Human Rights Concepts and Discourse
2.    The Human Rights Regime : Background and Birth
Part B : Normative Foundation of International Human Rights
3.    Civil and Political Rights
4.    Economic and Social Rights
5.    National Security, Terrorism and the Law of Armed Conflict
Part C : Rights, Duties and Dilemmas of Universalism
6.    Rights of Duties as Organizing Concepts
7.    Conflict in Culture, Tradition and Practices: Challenges to Universalism
Part D : International Human Rights Organizations
8.    The United Nations Human Rights Syestem
9.    Treaty Bodies : The ICCPR Human Rigt Committee
10.  International Human Rights Fact-Finding
11.   Regional Arrangements
Part E : States as protectors and Enforces of Human Rights
12.  Vertical Interpentnetration: International Human Rights Law within
        States' Legal and Political Orders
13.  Horizontal Interpenetration: Transnational Influence and
        Enforcement of Human Rights
14.  Measuring and Evaluating Human Rights Performance
Part F : Current Topics
15.  Massive Human Rights Tragedies: Prosecutions and Truth Commissions
16.  Non-State Actors and Human Rights
17.  Human Rights, Development and Climate Change
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Author's Details
Philip Alston : John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law at New York University School of Law
Ryan Goodman : Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Professor of Law at New York University School of Law Professor of Politics and Professor of Sociology at New York University
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