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The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights Law, edited by Conor Gearty and Costas Douzinas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, xv + 355pp (£25.99 paperback; £65.00 hardback). ISBN: 9781107602359; ISBN: 9781107016248.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Peter Munce
Peter Munce*
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University of Hull
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Legal Studies , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , June 2014 , pp. 358 - 361
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Notes

34. See Gearty, C and Douzinas, C (eds) The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights Law (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2012) p 150.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

35. Ingram, J ‘What is a “right to have rights”? Three images of the politics of human rights’ (2008) 102(4) Am Pol Sci Rev 401–416.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

36. Gearty and Douzinas, above n 34, p 83.

37. MacIntyre, A Whose Justice? Which Rationality? (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988).Google Scholar

38. Gearty and Douzinas, above n 34, p 57.

39. Ignatieff, M Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001) p 90.Google Scholar

40. Gearty and Douzinas, above n 34, p 60.

41. ibid.

42. Ibid, p 77.

43. Ibid, p 18.

44. Ibid, p 24.

45. Ibid.

45. See https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/142894/UN_HRC_-_UK_Candidacy_2014.pdf (accessed 10 March 2014).

47. Moyn, S The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010).Google Scholar

48. Gearty and Douzinas, above n 34, p 330.

49. D Kennedy ‘Two sides of the coin: human rights pragmatism and idolatry: keynote address, Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Rights’, Clement House, London School of Economics (24 March 2006) at 5.