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Comparative Human Rights Law
An essential overview of the comparative study of human rights law. This book will introduce students, academics, and legal practitioners to the aims and methods of approaching human rights from a comparative perspective.
Author(s) | By Sandra Fredman, FBA (Rhodes Professor of the Laws of the British Commonwealth and the USA, Rhodes Professor of the Laws of the British Commonwealth and the USA, University of Oxford). |
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Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Format | Hardback |
Pages | 512 |
Published in | United Kingdom |
Published | 15 Nov 2018 |
Availability | Available |
An essential overview of the comparative study of human rights law. This book will introduce students, academics, and legal practitioners to the aims and methods of approaching human rights from a comparative perspective.
Part I 1: Foreign Fads or Fashions: The Role of Comparativism in Human Rights Law 2: What is a Human Right? Dealing with Disagreement 3: Challenging the Divide: Socio-economic Rights as Human Rights 4: Allies or Subversives: Adjudication and Democracy
Sandra Fredman is Rhodes Professor of the Laws of the British Commonwealth and the USA at Oxford University. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2005 and became a QC (honoris causa) in 2012. She is Honorary Professor of Law at the Universi