The Legitimacy of International Human Rights Regimes
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The Legitimacy of International Human Rights Regimes

Legal, Political and Philosophical Perspectives

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eBook - PDF

The Legitimacy of International Human Rights Regimes

Legal, Political and Philosophical Perspectives

About this book

The past sixty years have seen an expansion of international human rights conventions and supervisory organs, not least in Europe. While these international legal instruments have enlarged their mandate, they have also faced opposition and criticism from political actors at the state level, even in well-functioning democracies. Against the backdrop of such contestations, this book brings together prominent scholars in law, political philosophy and international relations in order to address the legitimacy of international human rights regimes as a theoretically challenging and politically salient case of international authority. It provides a unique and thorough overview of the legitimacy problems involved in the global governance of human rights.

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Yes, you can access The Legitimacy of International Human Rights Regimes by Andreas Føllesdal,Johan Karlsson Schaffer,Geir Ulfstein in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politica e relazioni internazionali & Diritti umani. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. The Legitimacy of International Human Rights Regimes
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Contributors
  7. Preface
  8. 1 International human rights and the challenge of legitimacy
  9. 2 The legitimate authority of international human rights
  10. 3 On the legitimate authority of international human rights bodies
  11. 4 Equality, human rights, and political legitimacy
  12. 5 The legitimacy of international interpretive authorities for human rights treaties: an indirect-instrumentalist defence
  13. 6 Torture and the politics of legitimation in international law
  14. 7 Legitimacy, institutional power, and international human rights institutions: a conceptual enquiry
  15. 8 Legitimacy, global governance and human rights institutions: inverting the puzzle
  16. 9 The democratic legitimacy of international human rights conventions: political constitutionalism and the Hirst case
  17. 10 Much ado about nothing? International judicial review of human rights in well-functioning democracies
  18. Index