The Sovereignty of Human Rights

Author:   Patrick Macklem (William C. Graham Professor of Law, William C. Graham Professor of Law, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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9780190267315


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   08 October 2015
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Patrick Macklem (William C. Graham Professor of Law, William C. Graham Professor of Law, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 15.50cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9780190267315


ISBN 10:   0190267313
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   08 October 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 1. Field Missions Human Rights as Moral Concepts Human Rights as Political Concepts Human Rights as Legal Concepts The Plan of the Book 2. Sovereignty and Structure Sovereignty and its Exercise Between the National and International Sovereignty and its Distribution 3. Human Rights: Three Generations or One? Generations as Chronological Categories Generations as Analytical Categories Civil and Political Rights as Monitors of Sovereignty's Exercise Social and Economic Rights as Monitors of Sovereignty's Exercise 4. International Law at Work Labor Rights as Instrumental Rights Labor Rights as Universal Rights Labor Rights and the Structure of International Law 5. The Ambiguous Appeal of Minority Rights The Moral Ambiguities of Minority Rights The Political Ambiguities of Minority Rights The Interdependence of Sovereignty and Minority Protection 6. International Indigenous Recognition Indigenous Territories and the Acquisition of Sovereignty Indigenous Recognition and the International Labour Organization Indigenous Recognition and the United Nations The Purpose of International Indigenous Rights 7. Self-Determination in Three Movements Self-Determination and the Legality of Colonialism The Many Paradoxes of Self-Determination Bridging International Law and Distributive Justice 8. Global Poverty and the Right to Development The Emergence of the Right Implementing the Right From Global Poverty to International Law The Right to Development and the Rise and Fall of Colonialism Bibliography Index

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The Sovereignty of Human Rights is a must-read for anyone interested in international human rights law and global justice. Professor Macklem presents a highly original theory of human rights as normative legal concepts, focused on their role in the international legal system. The legal conception he offers is analytically distinct from both traditional moral and recent political conceptions. Given the expansion of international human rights law since the 1970s, Macklem's focus on their function as legal norms is illuminating and important...In short, Macklem's book forces us to rethink and revise our understanding of the effects of the ascription of international legal sovereign authority to certain political communities deemed states, and to revise our view of what constitutes a human right in the international system accordingly. -Jean L. Cohen, Nell and Herbert Singer Professor of Political Theory and Contemporary Civilization, Columbia University


Author Information

Patrick Macklem is the William C. Graham Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is a recurring Visiting Professor at Central European University. In 2006-2007, he was a Senior Global Research Fellow at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law. In 2007-2008, he was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey. He is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on international human rights law, constitutional law, and indigenous peoples and the law including From Recognition to Reconciliation: Essays on the Constitutional Entrenchment of Aboriginal and Treaty Rights, and Indigenous Difference and the Constitution of Canada (2001) (awarded the Canadian Political Science Donald Smiley Award for the best book in 2001 on Canadian government and policy; and the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences 2002 Harold Innis Prize by for the best English-language book in the social sciences).

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