The Idea of International Human Rights Law

by Steven Wheatley

International human rights law has emerged as an academic subject in its own right, separate from, but still related to international law. This book explains the distinctive nature of this discipline by examining the influence of the idea of human rights on general international law. Rather than make use of a particular moral philosophy or political theory, it explains 'human rights' by examining the way the term is deployed in legal practice, on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198749848
• ISBN13: 9780198749844
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"