Human Rights and Violence
The Hope and Fear of the Liberal World
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2024
Hart Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-84946-533-5 (ISBN)
Hart Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-84946-533-5 (ISBN)
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The dilemma of a liberal human rights lawyer is this: one both believes in and doubts human rights. This new offers a critical, albeit sympathetic, exploration of the conditions for practising and enforcing human rights in a world steeped in ambivalence.
This book explores how can a belief in and scepticism towards human rights be reconciled.
The dilemma of a liberal human rights lawyer is this: one both believes in and doubts human rights. No wonder, for human rights are ambivalent. As positive legal enactments, they are the result of political bargaining that speak the concrete and verifiable language of rules; yet they also hold an intangible promise of universal good that reaches beyond the text of enacted rules, evoking their cosmopolitan purpose. This dual nature makes human rights strong and accounts for their extraordinary appeal. But it also makes the practice of human rights a fundamentally liberal exercise in irresolution.
This book offers a critical, albeit sympathetic, exploration of the conditions for practising and enforcing human rights in a world steeped in ambivalence. Through an historical narrative it first unravels the liberal tension that inheres in rights, and then moves on to examine the case law of the European Court of Human Rights to illustrate how the tension compels a choice in the exercise of rights. In the final part, the tension and the choice in rights is analysed within the realm of humanitarian violence. This is the realm of the tension – and the choice – between the hope and the fear of the liberal world.
This book explores how can a belief in and scepticism towards human rights be reconciled.
The dilemma of a liberal human rights lawyer is this: one both believes in and doubts human rights. No wonder, for human rights are ambivalent. As positive legal enactments, they are the result of political bargaining that speak the concrete and verifiable language of rules; yet they also hold an intangible promise of universal good that reaches beyond the text of enacted rules, evoking their cosmopolitan purpose. This dual nature makes human rights strong and accounts for their extraordinary appeal. But it also makes the practice of human rights a fundamentally liberal exercise in irresolution.
This book offers a critical, albeit sympathetic, exploration of the conditions for practising and enforcing human rights in a world steeped in ambivalence. Through an historical narrative it first unravels the liberal tension that inheres in rights, and then moves on to examine the case law of the European Court of Human Rights to illustrate how the tension compels a choice in the exercise of rights. In the final part, the tension and the choice in rights is analysed within the realm of humanitarian violence. This is the realm of the tension – and the choice – between the hope and the fear of the liberal world.
Jarna Petman is Senior Lecturer in International Law and Deputy Director of the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 7.11.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Hart Monographs in Transnational and International Law |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht |
| Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-84946-533-9 / 1849465339 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-84946-533-5 / 9781849465335 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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