Contents

pp v-vi

Preface

pp vii-viii

Notes on contributors

pp ix-xii

Acronyms and abbreviations

pp xiii-xvi

Introduction

pp 1-14

Part I - All kinds of everyone

pp 15-16

1 - ‘Framing the project’ of international human rights law: reflections on the dysfunctional ‘family’ of the Universal Declaration

pp 17-35

2 - Restoring the ‘human’ in ‘human rights’: personhood and doctrinal innovation in the UN disability convention

pp 36-55

3 - The poverty of (rights) jurisprudence

pp 56-78

Part II - Interconnections

pp 79-80

4 - Foundations beyond law

pp 81-96

5 - The interdisciplinarity of human rights

pp 97-113

6 - Atrocity, law, humanity: punishing human rights violators

pp 114-133

7 - Violence in the name of human rights

pp 134-149

8 - Reinventing human rights in an era of hyper-globalisation: a few wayside remarks

pp 150-170

Part III - Platforms

pp 171-172

9 - Reconstituting the universal: human rights as a regional idea

pp 173-190

10 - The embryonic sovereign and the biological citizen: the biopolitics of reproductive rights

pp 191-213

11 - Spoils for which victor? Human rights within the democratic state

pp 214-230

12 - Devoluted human rights

pp 231-248

13 - Does enforcement matter?

pp 249-268

Part IV - Pressures

pp 269-270

14 - Winners and others: accounting for international law’s favourites

pp 271-292

15 - Resisting panic: lessons about the role of human rights during the long decade after 9/11

pp 293-306

16 - What’s in a name? The prohibitions on torture and ill treatment today

pp 307-328

17 - Do human rights treaties make enough of a difference?

pp 329-347

Index

pp 348-355