This book traverses the disciplines of law, political philosophy and international relations in assessing the normative legitimacy of international human rights

This is the first attempt to provide an in-depth moral assessment of the heart of the modern human rights enterprise: the system of international legal human ri

This collection evaluates the crisis of confidence in human rights which underpins understandings of just decision making and liberal democracy.

A bracing critique of human rights law and activism from the perspective of the Global South. How are human rights norms made, who makes them, and why? In Human

"Most chapters in this volume were first presented at a symposium held at the University of Bern in December 2006"--Page ix.