The past sixty years have seen an expansion of international human rights conventions and supervisory organs, not least in Europe. While these international leg

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.

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

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