Reframing Human Rights in a Turbulent Era
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Reframing Human Rights in a Turbulent Era by Grinne Brca
This important new book explores the issues underlying current and longstanding concerns over the 'creeping competences' of the European Union. A fundamental question since the early origins of the European Union in the functionally limited economic, coal and steel and atomic energies communities of the 1950s has been the legitimate scope and limits of its powers of action, and the relationship between these powers and those of its component Member States. This issue, which centers on the legitimacy of different levels and fora of government within a complex and growing economic and political entity, has been brought to prominence again by the constitutional agenda set by the European Council at Nice. Specifically, it has been highlighted by the call for a more precise delimitation of competences between the EU and the Member States.
In this refreshing and inspirational book, Gráinne de Búrca directly confronts human rights sceptics among scholars from across the political spectrum to demonstrate that, in practice, human rights have maintained an extraordinary vigour in motivating and supporting grassroots mobilization against political repression and illiberalismWith her well-known skill in developing powerful and innovative arguments, she builds on the actual practice of human rights activists to illuminate the dynamism of the human rights project, activated and shaped through both its moral appeal, and the meaning and impact given to it by affected groups. * Sandra Fredman, Professor of Law, Oxford University *
At last a book that makes the case for human rights and does it with great weight and authority. Gráinne de Búrca is proud to believe in human rights and supplies powerful reasons for our doing so too. Fresh and scholarly, de Búrcas account is a bracing change from the negativity that too often infuses academic treatments of the field. * Conor Gearty, Professor of Human Rights Law, LSE *
This book comes at the right time in a world that looks too grim. Grainne de Búrca provides grounded empirical assessments of the work that human rights movements do through structuring modes of interacting across national boundaries. De Búrca offers a nuanced appreciation of a complex world full of "mixed and partial" achievements, often met with backlash. De Búrca demonstrates that, when politics permits, the processes of ratifying, reporting, and arguing about what human rights commitments mean can engender new opportunities to lessen (not erase) modes of subordination. * Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law School *
Finally we have a thoughtful book about human rights which captures the vibrancy and successes of the diverse human rights movement. Anyone who wants to understand the real rather than the imagined world of human rights should read de Búrca's study. She makes it clear that struggles for social justice will continue to coalesce around the language of human rights for a long time to come. * Andrew Clapham, Professor of International Law, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies *
At last a book that makes the case for human rights and does it with great weight and authority. Gráinne de Búrca is proud to believe in human rights and supplies powerful reasons for our doing so too. Fresh and scholarly, de Búrcas account is a bracing change from the negativity that too often infuses academic treatments of the field. * Conor Gearty, Professor of Human Rights Law, LSE *
This book comes at the right time in a world that looks too grim. Grainne de Búrca provides grounded empirical assessments of the work that human rights movements do through structuring modes of interacting across national boundaries. De Búrca offers a nuanced appreciation of a complex world full of "mixed and partial" achievements, often met with backlash. De Búrca demonstrates that, when politics permits, the processes of ratifying, reporting, and arguing about what human rights commitments mean can engender new opportunities to lessen (not erase) modes of subordination. * Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law School *
Finally we have a thoughtful book about human rights which captures the vibrancy and successes of the diverse human rights movement. Anyone who wants to understand the real rather than the imagined world of human rights should read de Búrca's study. She makes it clear that struggles for social justice will continue to coalesce around the language of human rights for a long time to come. * Andrew Clapham, Professor of International Law, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies *
Gráinne de Búrca is Florence Ellinwood Allen Professor of Law at NYU. Previously, she held tenured posts at Harvard Law School, Fordham Law School, the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and Oxford University. Her fields of research are European Union law and international human rights law. She is co-editor of the Oxford University Press series Oxford Studies in European Law, and co-author of the leading OUP textbook EU Law. She is co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON) and serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of International Law, Global Constitutionalism and Legal Studies. She was a President of the International Society of Public Law ICON-S from 2015-2018, and is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199246007 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199246009 |
| Title | Reframing Human Rights in a Turbulent Era |
| Author | Grinne Brca |
| Series | Collected Courses Of The Academy Of European Law |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2021-03-09 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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