Who Believes in Human Rights?: Reflections on the European Convention

by Marie-Benedicte Dembour

Book Overview

Many people believe passionately in human rights. Others - Bentham, Marx, cultural relativists and some feminists amongst them - dismiss the concept of human rights as practically and conceptually inadequate. This book reviews these classical critiques and shows how their insights are reflected in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights. At one level an original, accessible and insightful legal commentary on the European Convention, this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521683076
• ISBN13: 9780521683074
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"