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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Right to Bodily Integrity
Book SynopsisThe right to bodily integrity has become a notable controversial issue within moral, political and legal discourse and this right is regarded as one of the most precious rights that persons have, alongside the right to life. Recent scholarly debate has focused attention on the content, scope and force of this right and has lead to the recognition that a better understanding of the nature of this right will contribute to determining whether and why a multitude of clinical and research activities in medical practice should be seen as permissible or impermissible. The essays selected for this volume examine topics such as pregnancy and reproduction, altering children's bodies, transplantation, controversial modifications and surgeries, and experimentation and dead bodies. This is the first collection of scholarly research articles to provide a comprehensive overview of the ethical and legal aspects of the right to bodily integrity and its implications in theory and practice.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction. Part I Bodies, Rights and Integrity: Bodily and moral integrity rights, Jill Marshall; My body, your body, our bodies, Jonathan Herring and P.L. Chau; Against the right to bodily integrity: of cyborgs and human rights, Gowri Ramachandran. Part II Pregnancy and Reproduction: A defense of abortion, Judith Jarvis Thomson; A feminist, Kantian conception of the right to bodily integrity: the cases of abortion and homosexuality, Helga Varden; Sex and the sacred: sterilization and bodily integrity in English and Canadian law, Kristin Savell. Part III Altering Children’s Bodies: The child’s right to bodily integrity, Robert Ludbrook; Between prophylaxis and child abuse: the ethics of neonatal male circumcision, Michael Benatar and David Benatar; Routine (non-religious) neonatal circumcision and bodily integrity: a transatlantic dialogue, Wim Dekkers; Medicine’s challenge to relativism: the case of female genital mutilation, Loretta M. Kopelman; Bodily integrity and the surgical management of intersex, Emily Grabham; Forever small: the strange case of Ashley X, Eva Feder Kittay. Part IV Transplantation: Transplantation and rights over our bodies, T.M. Wilkinson; Confiscating live body parts, Cécile Fabre; Hand transplants and bodily integrity, Jenny Slatman and Guy Widdershoven. Part V Controversial Modifications and Surgeries: Should we prevent non-therapeutic mutilation and extreme body modification?, Thomas Schramme; Body dysmorphic disorder, radical surgery and the limits of consent, Tracey Elliott; Amputees by choice: body integrity identity disorder and the ethics of amputation, Tim Bayne and Neil Levy; Transsexualism and gender reassignment surgery, Heather Draper and Neil Evans; Female genital mutilation and cosmetic surgery: regulating non-therapeutic body modification, Sally Sheldon and Stephen Wilkinson. Part VI Experimentation and Dead Bodies: Proxy research consent and the decisionally impaired: science, the common good, and bodily integrity, Karen J. Maschke; Last rights: the ethics of research on the dead, T.M. Wilkinson; Consent and the use of the bodies of the dead, T.M. Wilkinson. Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Nussbaum and Law
Book SynopsisThe essays collected in this volume reflect the profound impact of Martha Nussbaum's philosophical writings on law and legal scholarship. The capabilities approach that she has largely authored has influenced the approach scholars take to the law of disabilities, both in the United States and in Canada, as well as to international human rights and to domestic private law's protections of vulnerable populations. Her analyses of the relationship between our emotions and our thought and action has triggered a re-assessment of the legal regulation and recognition of emotion in a range of fields, most particularly in the field of criminal law; and her writing on the nature of dignity has informed an understanding of the emerging civil rights of gay and lesbian citizens worldwide. Our appreciation of the role of narrative in legal thought and discourse and the contributions of literature to law and legal culture, have also been broadened and deepened by her contributions. Taken together, andTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: towards humanistic jurisprudence. Part I The Capabilities Approach: Disability human rights, Michael Ashley Stein; Martha Nussbaum’s capabilities approach and equality rights for people with disabilities: rethinking the Granovsky decision, Ravi Malhotra; Personal delegations, Alexander A. Boni-Saenz; Animals as vulnerable subjects: beyond interest-convergence, hierarchy, and property, Ani B. Satz; Capabilities and constitutions, Robin West. Part II Law and Emotions: Gender and emotion in criminal law, Katharine K. Baker; Empathy, narrative, and victim impact statements, Susan Bandes; Justice and mercy in the face of excessive suffering: some preliminary thoughts, David Gray. Part III Sexuality, Gender, Feminism and Law: Conferring dignity: the metamorphosis of the legal homosexual, Noa Ben-Asher; Feminism as liberalism: a tribute to the work of Martha Nussbaum, Tracey E. Higgins; Human capabilities and human authorities: a comment on Martha Nussbaum’s Women and Human Development, Robin West. Part IV Law and Literature: Regulatory fictions: on marriage and countermarriage, Elizabeth F. Emens; The city and the poet, Kenji Yoshino. Name index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd International Biolaw and Shared Ethical
Book SynopsisThe Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights, 2005, marked a significant step towards the recognition of universal standards in the field of science and medicine. This book provides an overview of the ethical and legal developments which have occurred in the field of bioethics and human rights since then. The work critically analyzes the Declaration from an ethical and legal perspective, commenting on its implementation, and discussing the role of non-binding norms in international bioethics. The authors examine whether the Declaration has contributed to the understanding of universal or global bioethics, and to what degree states have implemented the principles in their domestic legislation. The volume explores the currency of the Declaration vis-à-vis the more recent developments in technology and medicine and looks ahead to envisage the major bioethical challenges of the next twenty years. In this context, the book offers a comprehensive ethical and legal study of the Trade ReviewIs it possible to find common criteria on the ethical assessment and legal regulation of the very divisive area of biomedicine and life sciences? Looking at the intersection between human rights and global bioethics, the book successfully answers the question. A compass in the very rough fields of bioethics and biolaw. Carlo Casonato, Professor of Law at the University of Trento; chief editor of the BioLaw Journal; member of the Italian Committee for BioethicsThe book edited by Caporale and Pavone is an excellent study on the origins, contents and meanings of the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights, and is essential reading to understand its strength and limitations in relation to new challenges of biomedical research as well as of global bioethics.Gilberto Corbellini, Professor of History of Medicine and Bioethics at the University of Rome - La Sapienza.Table of ContentsPart I UNESCO and Global BioethicsChapter 1: The role of UNESCO in promoting universal human rights: from 1948 to 2005 Author: Roberto AndornoChapter 2: The elaboration and adoption process of the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights as a ‘best practice’ in the construction of a shared bioethicsAuthor: Cinzia CaporaleChapter 3: The Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights as a landmark in the development of global bioethics.Author: Tenk ten HaavePart II The Declaration and its Principles: a philosophical and bioethical perspectiveChapter 4: Charters of Rights and Bioethical Principles: a Multicultural Challenge.Author: Francesco D’Agostino, Fabio MacioceChapter 5: Value issues and historical significance. Philosophical directions in the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human RightsAuthors: Emilia D’Antuono, Emilia TaglialatelaChapter 6: Universal Declaration of Bioethics and Human Rights: art. 21, Transnational practices. International clinical trials: ethical aspectsAuthor: Laura PalazzaniPart III The Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights and the lawChapter 7: The Legal Perspective of the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human RightsAuthors: Carmela Decaro Bonella and Francesco Alicino Chapter 8: The Role of Soft Law in BioethicsAuthor: Ilja Richard PavoneChapter 9: The UNESCO Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights and the Normative Transition from Corporatocene to Sustainocene Author: Thomas Alured Faunce Chapter 10: The Report of the International Bioethics Committee on Vulnerability: A Review Author: Adèle Langlois
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Middle East and North Africa: Governance,
Book SynopsisThis collection contains articles by highly regarded scholars assessing governance, democratisation and human rights in the contemporary Middle East and North Africa. It also assesses the role that Islam plays in these areas. In the spirit of the 50th anniversary year of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, the authors examine the interrelationships among Islam, politics and human rights and evaluate each country’s contemporary record. The book contains in-depth articles on Islam and politics, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, the Gulf States, Turkey, Egypt and the Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Mauritania). The authors discuss recent political developments in each of these countries and point out their accomplishments and shortcomings in the area of human rights.Trade Review’The book consists of original, innovative and insightful chapters written by recognized experts in the field. Scholars, decision-makers, policy advocates and others interested in the issues of human rights and governance will want this book on their reading shelf.’ Robert Olson, University of Kentucky, USA ’...offers a good chapter on Jordan...does an excellent job in showing the conspicuous discrepancy between the constitution/political discourse on human rights and practice ...quite informative.’ Middle East Studies AssociationTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Islam, governance and democracy; Iraq: human rights in the republic of fear; Syria resists the end of history; Jordan; Egypt: human rights and governance; Democratization, liberalization and human rights: challenges facing the Gulf Cooperation Council; Turkey; Human rights within Israel; Human rights in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip: politics and law in transition; The rise and fall of democratization in the Maghreb.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Environmental Justice and the Rights of Unborn
Book SynopsisThe traditional concept of social justice is increasingly being challenged by the notion of a humankind that spans current and future generations. This book, with a foreword by Roger Brownsword, is the first systematic examination of how the rights of the unborn and future generations are handled in common law and under international legal instruments. It provides comprehensive coverage of the arguments over international legal instruments, key legal cases and examples including the Convention on the Rights of the Child, industrial disasters, clean water provision, diet, HIV/AIDS, environmental racism and climate change. Also covered are international agreements and objectives as diverse as the Kyoto Protocol, the Millennium Development Goals and international trade. The result is the most controversial and thorough examination to date of the subject and the enormous ramifications and challenges it poses to every aspect of international and domestic environmental, human rights, trade and public health law and policy.Trade Review'Laura Westra's book is a welcome addition to the growing body of work on environmental jurisprudence and the link to social justice' Elizabeth May, Executive Director, Sierra Club of Canada 'If outrage against social injustice galvanizes your life, Laura Westra's magisterial Environmental Justice and the Rights of Unborn and Future Generations is the single book you must read and use this year' Robert Goodland, former Chief Environmental Adviser to the World Bank Group 'Westra brings another important interdisciplinary perspective on this topic.' Journal of Human RightsTable of ContentsForeword * Part I: The Rights of the First Generation * The Child's Rights to Health and the Environment, and the Role of the World Health Organization * The Status of the Preborn in Civil Law Instruments * The Status of the Child and the Preborn in Common Law Instruments and Cases * Supranational Governance: The European Court of Human Rights, and the WTO-WHO Conflict * Part II: Ecojustice and Future Generations' Rights * The Impact of Consumerism and Social Policy on the Health of the Child * Future Generations' Rights: Linking Intergenerational and Intragenerational Rights in Ecojustice * Ecojustice and Consideration for the Future: The Persistence of Ecofootprint Disasters * Ecojustice and Industrial Operations: Irreconcilable Conflict or Possible Coexistence? * Developmental and Health Rights of Children in Developing Countries: Towards a Model Legislation for the Rights of the Child to Health * Appendices, Bibliography, List of cases, Index
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Cambridge University Press Reading Humanitarian Intervention Human Rights and the Use of Force in International Law Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law Series Number 30
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Cambridge University Press Companies International Trade and Human Rights 4 Cambridge Studies in Corporate Law Series Number 4
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Cambridge University Press Human Rights in the Twentieth Century
Book SynopsisBy focusing on specific instances of assertions or violations of human rights during the past century, this volume analyzes the place of human rights in the various arenas of global politics, providing an alternative framework for understanding the political and legal dilemmas that emerged from these conflicts.Trade Review'Human Rights in the Twentieth Century is a landmark in a field of supreme importance. It is enlightening and therefore disenchanting in the most constructive sense. It brings together a fine group of scholars, mainly historians, to provide historical perspective on a topic that is sorely lacking it and shows the contingency of the deployment of human rights as a political language, the varied roots of that language, and the diversity of objects that it can address.' Donald Bloxham, University of Edinburgh'This is an outstanding collection of essays on various aspects of human rights history in the twentieth century. The essays cover a wide range topically - from the intellectual linealogy of the human rights concept to its relationship to states in specific circumstances - chronologically and geographically and are of uniformly high quality. They make exciting reading and together contribute enormously to helping understand one of the most vital and important - but hitherto insufficiently studied - developments in recent history.' Akira Iriye, Harvard University'This is an impressive collection on a timely and important topic. Its strengths are considerable, including both stimulating synthetic 'think-pieces' on the changing meanings of 'human rights' and archivally based studies of how, and with what results, 'rights-talk' was mobilized by different groups and in different situations.' Susan Pedersen, Columbia University'At long last we have a book that takes a critical approach to the history of human rights. Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann has put together a stellar cast of historians whose topics range widely around the globe. His own introduction raises the scholarship on human rights to a new level. This is the book that scholars and practitioners will need to read and debate.' Eric D. Weitz, University of Minnesota'This volume makes an invaluable contribution to the study of human rights by treating them historically, foregoing familiar triumphalist narratives about steady progress in favour of detailed examinations of the contingent usage of human rights as political language and instrument.' Johannes Paulmann, History Workshop JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann; Part I. The Emergence of Human Rights Regimes: 1. The end of civilization and the rise of human rights: the mid-20th century disjuncture Mark Mazower; 2. The 'human rights revolution' at work: displaced persons in post-war Europe G. Daniel Cohen; 3. Legal diplomacy: law, politics, and the genesis of postwar European human rights Mikael Rask Madsen; Part II. Postwar Universalism and Legal Theory: 4. Personalism, community, and the origins of human rights Samuel Moyn; 5. René Cassin: les droit de l'homme and the universality of human rights, 1945–66 Glenda Sluga; 6. Rudolf Laun and the human rights of Germans in occupied and early West Germany Lora Wildenthal; Part III. Human Rights, State Socialism, and Dissent: 7. Embracing and contesting: the Soviet Union and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948–58 Jennifer Amos; 8. Soviet rights-talk in the post-Stalin era Benjamin Nathans; 9. Charter 77 and the Roma: human rights and dissent in socialist Czechoslovakia Celia Donert; Part IV. Genocide, Humanitarianism, and the Limits of Law: 10. Toward world law? Human rights and the failure of the legalist paradigm of war Devin O. Pendas; 11. 'Source of embarrassment': human rights, state of emergency, and the wars of decolonization Fabian Klose; 12. The United Nations, humanitarianism and human rights: war crimes/genocide trials for Pakistani soldiers in Bangladesh, 1971–4 A. Dirk Moses; Part V. Human Rights, Sovereignty, and the Global Condition: 13. African nationalists and human rights, 1940s to 1970s Andreas Eckert; 14. The International Labour Organization and the globalization of rights, 1944–70 Daniel Roger Maul; 15. 'Under a magnifying glass': the international human rights campaign against Chile in the 1970s Jan Eckel.
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Cambridge University Press Indigenous Rights and United Nations Standards SelfDetermination Culture and Land 52 Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law Series Number 52
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Cambridge University Press Accountability for Collective Wrongdoing
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Cambridge University Press The Rule of Law in Afghanistan Missing in Inaction
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Cambridge University Press The Politics of Prisoner Abuse The United States and Enemy Prisoners after 911
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Cambridge University Press The African Human Rights System Activist Forces and International Institutions
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Cambridge University Press International Authority and the Responsibility to Protect
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Cambridge University Press International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Treaties Cases and Analysis
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Cambridge University Press The Participation of States in International Organisations The Role of Human Rights and Democracy 71 Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law Series Number 71
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Cambridge University Press Human Rights in the Twentieth Century
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Cambridge University Press Detention in the War on Terror
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Cambridge University Press Transition from Illegal Regimes under International Law 78 Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law Series Number 78
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Cambridge University Press International Authority and the Responsibility to Protect
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Cambridge University Press Human Rights and Europe
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Cambridge University Press European Union Law in a Global Context
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Cambridge University Press European Conquest Rights Indigenous The Moral Backwardness of International Society 92 Cambridge Studies in International Relations Series Number 92
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Cambridge University Press The Future of Un Human Rights Treaty Monitoring
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Cambridge University Press The Future of Un Human Rights Treaty Monitoring
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Cambridge University Press freedom of Religion
Book SynopsisFreedom of thought, conscience and religion is one of the core freedoms found in international human rights instruments at both UN and European level. This 2005 study is the first to provide a detailed critique of the standards applicable to freedom of religion within both the UN and Europe.Trade Review"As an exercise in comparing European and International legal struggles in religious liberty, Taylor's book is worth reading." -- The Law and Politics Book Review, Stephen McDougal, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse"...highly technical and very thorough examination of the law of religious freedom as it has developed in the UN and European Union...it is a treasure trove...Taylor has written a detailed, exhaustive treatment of two different human rights system (UN and Europe) in light of their success or failure in securing religious freedom. It is a work that repays reading and reflection, at least by human rights lawyers." --William L. Saunders, JR., Senior Fellow in Bioethics and Human Rights Counsel, Family Research Council, Touchstone (January/ebruary 2009)Table of ContentsPreface; List of abbreviations; Table of cases, applications and communications; Table of treaties, declarations, and other international instruments; 1. Introduction; 2. Freedom of religious choice; 3. The scope of the forum internum beyond religious choice; 4. The right to manifest religious belief and applicable limitations; 5. Conclusion; Annexes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Law Infrastructure and Human Rights
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Cambridge University Press Who Believes in Human Rights Reflections on the European Convention Law in Context
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Cambridge University Press Economic Rights
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Cambridge University Press The Human Right to a Green Future
Book SynopsisThis book presents an argument for establishing environmental human rights as the legitimate possession of both present and future generations. It uses these rights - to clean air, water, and soil - to make an argument for justice across generations, that is, for recognizing the obligation that present generations have to preserve the environment and natural resources for future generations.Trade Review'The Human Right to a Green Future does provide a good survey and application of political and philosophical thinkers and their reflections on justice and human rights … the book is a welcome addition for researchers considering issues of environmental human rights from a theoretical and multi-disciplinary perspective.' Andrew Sanger, Web Journal of Current Legal Issues'… Richard P. Hiskes offers a highly original … response with The Human Right to a Green Future. What is original about this work is the way in which [he] combines arguments from the realms of human rights and intergenerational justice in an attempt to make a case for, as he puts it, 'gathering the collective will necessary to preserve the planet' … Hiskes sets the bar laudably high for those communities that his argument can comfortably and rather uncontroversially be extended to, namely, western liberal democratic states with a settled political culture and stable political institutions.' International Affairs'This is a far-reaching book that presents a seminal interpretation of intergenerational justice and a renewed landscape for rights, justice and community. Hiskes' narrative is saturated with responses to salient figures in philosophy and political theory. I regret that [this] synopsis cannot capture the range and richness of his account.' Human Rights ReviewTable of Contents1. Environmental human rights and intergenerational justice; 2. Emergent human rights, identity, harms and duties; 3. Reflexive reciprocity and intergenerational environmental justice; 4. Cosmopolitan ethics, communal reciprocity, and global environmentalism; 5. Toward a global consensus on environmental human rights; 6. Human rights as inheritance: instituting intergenerational environmental justice; 7. Conclusion: environmental justice and the emergent future of human rights.
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Cambridge University Press Human Rights and Intellectual Property
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Cambridge University Press Protecting the Worlds Children Impact of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Diverse Legal Systems
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Cambridge University Press Environmental Protection and Human Rights
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Cambridge University Press Environmental Protection and Human Rights
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Cambridge University Press European Union Law in a Global Context
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Cambridge University Press Freedom of Religion UN and European Human Rights Law and Practice
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Cambridge University Press International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
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Cambridge University Press Law Infrastructure and Human Rights
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Cambridge University Press Social Rights Jurisprudence
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Cambridge University Press Synergies in Minority Protection
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Cambridge University Press The African Human Rights System Activist Forces and International Institutions
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Cambridge University Press The Human Right to a Green Future Environmental Rights and Intergenerational Justice
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Cambridge University Press Human Rights and Intellectual Property
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Cambridge University Press Between Forbearance and Audacity
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Cambridge University Press Practices of Reparations in International Criminal Justice
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Cambridge University Press Practices of Reparations in International Criminal Justice
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Cambridge University Press A Safety Valve Model of Equity as Antiopportunism
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Cambridge University Press Mental Capacity Dignity and the Power of International Human Rights
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