Idea of International Human Rights Law, The OM4 In this completely revised edition

In this completely revised edition of his Very Short Introduction Marc Mulholland

Employing a range of interpretative methods

Robin Markwica introduces the logic of affect

The principles of a free society describe not a hierarchy of superior and subordinate authorities but an archipelago of competing and overlapping jurisdictions

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Idea of International Human Rights Law, The OM4 In this completely revised editionInternational human rights law has emerged as an academic subject in its own right, separate from, but still related to international law. This book explains the distinctive nature of this discipline by examining the influence of the idea of human rights on general international law. Rather than make use of a particular moral philosophy or political theory, it explains human rights by examining the way the term is deployed in legal practice, on the