Book contents
- Strengthening Human Rights Protections in Geneva, Israel, the West Bank and Beyond
- Strengthening Human Rights Protections in Geneva, Israel, the West Bank and Beyond
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 On Limits and Restrictions of Human Rights
- 2 Digital Surveillance, Meta Data and Foreign Intelligence Cooperation
- 3 Some Reflections upon Access to Justice, in the Transnational Setting, as a ‘Right to Law’
- 4 Human Rights Treaty Bodies as Standard-Setting Mechanisms
- 5 The Applicability of the Law of Occupation to UN Administration of Foreign Territory
- 6 The Responsibility of Businesses Operating in the Settlements in Occupied Territory
- 7 Occupational Hazards: Gender and the Law of Occupation in Israel-Palestine
- 8 Rule of Law De Jure and/or De Facto?
- 9 Political Liberalism in a Jewish and Democratic State
- 10 Law and Identity
- 11 David Kretzmer
- 12 David Kretzmer
- David Kretzmer: Selected Publications
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 August 2021
Book contents
- Strengthening Human Rights Protections in Geneva, Israel, the West Bank and Beyond
- Strengthening Human Rights Protections in Geneva, Israel, the West Bank and Beyond
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 On Limits and Restrictions of Human Rights
- 2 Digital Surveillance, Meta Data and Foreign Intelligence Cooperation
- 3 Some Reflections upon Access to Justice, in the Transnational Setting, as a ‘Right to Law’
- 4 Human Rights Treaty Bodies as Standard-Setting Mechanisms
- 5 The Applicability of the Law of Occupation to UN Administration of Foreign Territory
- 6 The Responsibility of Businesses Operating in the Settlements in Occupied Territory
- 7 Occupational Hazards: Gender and the Law of Occupation in Israel-Palestine
- 8 Rule of Law De Jure and/or De Facto?
- 9 Political Liberalism in a Jewish and Democratic State
- 10 Law and Identity
- 11 David Kretzmer
- 12 David Kretzmer
- David Kretzmer: Selected Publications
- Index
Summary
Contemporary philosophers remind us that the conceptual bases of human rights law, human rights movements and human rights discourse are not sufficiently grounded, tend to overlook the distinction between values and rights and engage inadequately with the practice of human rights. Other commentators criticise human rights on practical bases, casting doubts on whether human rights treaties have indeed improved the well-being of people, or even resulted in respect for the rights in those treaties. Such criticisms emphasise the relative weakness of humanitarian impulse that underlay human rights law and the unsystematic strategic and instrumental bases for human rights.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021