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Dialogues on Human Rights and Legal Pluralism

Human rights have transformed the way in which we conceive the place of the individual within the community and in relation to the state in a vast array of disciplines, including law, philosophy, politics, sociology, geography. The published output on human rights over the last five decades has been...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Provost, Ren.̌ (Editor), Sheppard, Colleen. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Series:Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice ; 17
Subjects:
Law.
Philosophy of law.
Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law.
Philosophy of Law.
Political Science, general.
Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4710-4
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • About the Contributors
  • Introduction: Human Rights through Legal Pluralism; Ren ̌Provost and Colleen Sheppard
  • Part I. Universality and Plurality: Foundational Claims
  • Pluralistic Human Rights? Universal Human Wrongs?; Roderick A. Macdonald
  • E Pluribus Unum <U+0013> Bhinneka Tunggal Ika? Universal Human Rights and the Fragmentation of International Law; Carlos Ivǹ Fuentes, Ren ̌Provost and Sam Walker
  • International Human Rights and Global Legal Pluralism: A Research Agenda Frďřic Mǧret
  • Part II. Human Rights Values and Multiple Legal Orders: Connections and Contradictions
  • The Protection of Human Dignity in Contemporary Legal Pluralism; Jean-Guy Belley
  • Equality through the Prism of Legal Pluralism; Colleen Sheppard
  • Labour Law in Canada as a Site of Legal Pluralism; Guylaine Vallě
  • The Rigidity and Density of Discipline in Youth Rehabilitation Centres & Or Rules that Counter Rights; Julie Desrosiers
  • Reconceptualising Social and Economic Rights: The right to housing and intersecting legal regimes; Jane Matthews Glenn
  • Part III. Communities, Human Rights and Local Practices
  • Transnational Human Rights and Local Activism: Mapping the Middle; Sally Engle Merry
  • Thinking about Indigenous Legal Orders; Val Napoleon
  • Wives<U+0019> Tales on Research in Bountiful; Angela Campbell
  • Bibliography; Selected Bibliography on Human Rights and Legal Pluralism
  • Index.

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