Product Description: The Magna Carta, sealed in 1215, has come to stand for the rule of law, curbs on executive power and the freedom to enjoy basic liberties. When the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations in 1948, it was heralded as 'a Magna Carta for all human kind'...read more

Product Description: This collection of seminal essays by David Little addresses the subject of human rights in relation to the historical settings in which its language was drafted and adopted. Featuring five original essays, Little articulates his long-standing view that fascist practices before and during World War II vivified the wrongfulness of deliberately inflicting severe pain, injury, and destruction for self-serving purposes and that the human rights corpus, developed in response, was designed to outlaw all practices of arbitrary force...read more

Product Description: Is there an ethics of reading, and is this something that the interpretive humanities can and should contribute to other professional fields, including law, and to public life?This book tests the proposition that the humanities can, and at their best do, represent a commitment to ethical reading...read more

Product Description: Defending an account of human rights as ethically substantive standards of legitimacy for institutions, author Christine Chwaszcza develops a methodological framework for normative theory of inter- and transnational justice. Her account combines critical normative discourse with an analysis of political and international practice...read more

Product Description: Do international treaties improve women's rights? Is China's human rights record improving? Was Obama right to have the US join the UN Human Rights Council? This title takes up these and other questions. It explores who the key players are and what's at stake, covering the range of opinion surrounding an issue...read more

Product Description: This is a used book. Although it is used, it is in very good condition. There is minimal wear to the top and bottom edges of the hardcover. Corners slightly bumped. The interior appears clean and unmarked and appears to be unused.