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Title The legalization of human rights : multidisciplinary perspectives on human rights and human rights law / edited by Saladin Meckled-García and Başak Çali.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 208 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : human rights legalized -- defining, interpreting, and implementing an ideal / Başak Çali and Saladin Meckled-García -- Lost in translation : the human rights ideal and international human rights law / Saladin Meckled-García and Başak Çali -- 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 Álvarez Molinero -- Politics of reading human rights : inclusion and exclusion within the production of human rights / Upendra Baxi.
Summary This book explores the problematic relationship between human rights and their legal expression. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the authors scrutinise the extent to which legalisation shapes the human rights ideal, and survey the ethical,
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Subject Human rights.
Human rights.
Human rights -- Psychological aspects.
Psychological aspects.
Human rights -- Social aspects.
Human rights -- Social aspects.
Indexed Term Multi-User: limited to 5 simultaneous users.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Human rights.
Added Author Meckled-García, Saladin, 1968-
Cali, Başak, 1974-
Other Form: Print version: Legalization of human rights. London ; New York : Routledge, 2006 0415361222 0415361230 (DLC) 2005002572 (OCoLC)57564684
ISBN 0203008685 (electronic book)
9780203008683 (electronic book)
0415361222 (Cloth)
9780415361224 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
0415361230 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780415361231 (paperback ; alkaline paper)