The Complexity of Human Rights
From Vernacularization to Quantification
$54.75
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
8 February 2024
Summary
This book provides the first systematic assessment from a human rights law perspective of the landmark contributions of the renowned legal anthropologist, Sally Engle Merry.
What impact does over-simplification have on human rights debates? The understandable tendency to present them as a single, universal, and immutable concept ignores their complexity and by extension only serves to weaken them.
Merry and her colleagues transformed human rights thinking by h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781509972869 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1509972862 |
| Author: | Philip Alston |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Hart Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 8 February 2024 |
| Weight: | 480g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 156mm x 232mm |
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Philip Alston
Philip Alston is John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, USA, and a former UN Special Rapporteur on both extreme poverty and human rights, and on extrajudicial executions.
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