Can Human Rights Survive?

By:

Conor Gearty

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Paperback / softback

Series:

The Hamlyn lectures

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In this set of three essays, originally presented as the 2005 Hamlyn Lectures, Conor Gearty considers whether human rights can survive the challenges of the war on terror, the revival of political religion, and the steady erosion of the world's natural resources. He also looks deeper than this to consider the fundamental question: How can we tell what human rights are? In his first essay, Gearty asks how the idea of human rights needs to be made to work in our age of relativism, uncertainty and anxiety. In the second, he assesses how the idea of human rights has coped with its incorporation in legal form in the UK Human Rights Act, arguing that the record is much better and more democratic than many human rights enthusiasts allow. In his final essay, Gearty confronts the challenges that may destroy the language of human rights for the generations that follow us.

Author Biography:

Conor Gearty is Professor of Human Rights Law at the London School of Economics, Rausing Director at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, and a founding member of Matrix Chambers. High profile speaker on human rights whose work has a strong following.

Release date NZ

May 18th, 2006

Author

Conor Gearty

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

192

Series

The Hamlyn lectures

Dimensions

140x216x10

ISBN-13

9780521685528

Product ID

2012024

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