Global governance and the quest for justice. Human rights / Volume 4, (2004)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Human rights
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Roger Brownsword.
• Other Names: Lewis, N. Douglas; MacLeod, Sorcha; Brownsword, Roger
• Contents: Half Title Page; Half Title verso; Title Page; Title verso; Preface; Contents; List of Contributors; 1. Introduction: Global Governance and Human Rights; Part I: Competing Priorities -- Are Human Rights Destined to be Second-Best?; 2. The Global ''War on Terrorism'': Democratic Rights Under Attack; INTRODUCTION; THE MILITARY CALL-OUT LEGISLATION; THE TAMPA CASE AND THE 1951 REFUGEE CONVENTION; 'COUNTER-TERRORISM' LAWS; CONCLUSION; 3. Human Rights in Times of Economic Crisis: The Example of Argentina; INTRODUCTION; EMERGENCY MEASURES; JUSTIFICATION OF THE EMERGENCY MEASURES. THE ROLE OF THE JUDICIARYPROBLEMS THAT NEED TO BE RESOLVED IN THE CONTEXT OF THE JUSTICIABILITY OF EMERGENCY MEASURES; CONCLUSION; 4. Collateralism; THE SETTING; THE ROOTS OF COLLATERALISM: FUNCTIONALIST PRINCIPLES; MOVING BEYOND COLLATERALISM: CIVIC PRINCIPLES; COMBINING CIVIC PRINCIPLES AND FUNCTIONAL IMPERATIVES; REVISITING THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN STATE AND NON-STATE ACTOR; CONCLUSION; 5. The (Im)possibility of the European Union as a Global Human Rights Regime; INTRODUCTION; THE RECORD OF THE EU AS A GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS REGIME; THE DESIRABILITY OF TRANSFORMATION; THE CAPACITY FOR CHANGE? CONCLUDING THOUGHTS6. The EU and Human Rights Never the Twain Shall Meet?; INTRODUCTION; THE NEED TO PROTECT HUMAN RIGHTS AGAINST THE EU; CURRENT HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION AGAINST THE EU; POSSIBLE IMPROVEMENTS; CONCLUSION; 7. Environmental Rights and Human Rights: The Final Enclosure Movement; INTRODUCTION: THE FINAL ENCLOSURES MOVEMENT; UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLES AND HUMAN RIGHTS; GROUNDING HUMAN RIGHTS; ECOVIOLENCE AND HUMAN RIGHTS: CAUSATION AND CONSPIRACY; CONCLUSIONS; 8. International Rhetoric and the Real Global Agenda: Exploring the Tension between Interdependence and Globalisation. INTRODUCTIONGLOBALISATION, LAW AND INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY; UNIVERSAL GOAL-SETTING IN THE SHADOW OF GLOBALISATION; CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY AND THE WSSD; MAINTAINING IDEALISM WITHIN INTERNATIONAL LAW; 9. The International Criminal Court: Friend or Foe of International Criminal Justice?; JUSTICE: ICC STYLE; ARTICLE 53 AND THE 'INTERESTS OF JUSTICE' PROVISION; CONCLUSION; Part II: Competing Views of Fundamental Values -- Law as a Mediator of Rival Conceptions of Human Rights and Human Dignity. 10. Taking Human Rights Seriously: United Kingdom and New Zealand Perspectives on Judicial Interpretation and IdeologiesINTRODUCTION; INTERPRETATION: LANGUAGE; JUDICIAL APPROACHES; JUDICIAL IDEOLOGIES OF LAW; IMPLEMENTATION AND APPLICATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN NEW ZEALAND; HUMAN RIGHTS IN NEW ZEALAND; INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS INSTRUMENTS AND THE JUDICIARY: MATTERS OF INTERPRETATION; FILLING THE GAPS: INTERPRETATION AND THE CREATION OF REMEDIES; CONCLUSION; 11. Globalisation of Justice: for Better or Worse?; INTRODUCTION; WHAT IS AT STAKE AFTER TRANSITION? THREE NORMATIVE PERSPECTIVES. Justice after transition -- local needs.
• Publisher Details: Oxford Portland, Or : Hart Pub
• Publication Date: 2004
• Extent: 1 online resource (1 volume)
• Subjects: 341.2; Human rights; International organization; Organisation internationale; Droits de l'homme (Droit international); LAW -- International; Human rights; International organization; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781847310231; 1847310230
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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