The Legitimacy of International Human Rights Regimes Legal, Political and Philosophical Perspectives
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- The Legitimacy of International Human Rights Regimes
- The Legitimacy of International Human Rights Regimes
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 International human rights and the challenge of legitimacy
- 2 The legitimate authority of international human rights
- 3 On the legitimate authority of international human rights bodies
- 4 Equality, human rights, and political legitimacy
- 5 The legitimacy of international interpretive authorities for human rights treaties: an indirect-instrumentalist defence
- 6 Torture and the politics of legitimation in international law
- 7 Legitimacy, institutional power, and international human rights institutions: a conceptual enquiry
- 8 Legitimacy, global governance and human rights institutions: inverting the puzzle
- 9 The democratic legitimacy of international human rights conventions: political constitutionalism and the Hirst case
- 10 Much ado about nothing? International judicial review of human rights in well-functioning democracies
- Index
5 - The legitimacy of international interpretive authorities for human rights treaties: an indirect-instrumentalist defence
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Book contents
- The Legitimacy of International Human Rights Regimes
- The Legitimacy of International Human Rights Regimes
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 International human rights and the challenge of legitimacy
- 2 The legitimate authority of international human rights
- 3 On the legitimate authority of international human rights bodies
- 4 Equality, human rights, and political legitimacy
- 5 The legitimacy of international interpretive authorities for human rights treaties: an indirect-instrumentalist defence
- 6 Torture and the politics of legitimation in international law
- 7 Legitimacy, institutional power, and international human rights institutions: a conceptual enquiry
- 8 Legitimacy, global governance and human rights institutions: inverting the puzzle
- 9 The democratic legitimacy of international human rights conventions: political constitutionalism and the Hirst case
- 10 Much ado about nothing? International judicial review of human rights in well-functioning democracies
- Index
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- The Legitimacy of International Human Rights RegimesLegal, Political and Philosophical Perspectives, pp. 141 - 164Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013
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