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The jurisprudence of human rights law : a comparative interpretive approach / edited by Theodore S. Orlin, Allan Rosas and Martin Scheinin.

Title
The jurisprudence of human rights law : a comparative interpretive approach / edited by Theodore S. Orlin, Allan Rosas and Martin Scheinin.
Publication
Turku/Åbo : Institute for Human Rights, Åbo Akademi University ; Syracuse NY : Distributed in the USA by Syracuse University Press, 2000.

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Additional Authors
  • Åbo akademi (1918- ). Institutet för mänskliga rättigheter
  • Orlin, Theodore S.
  • Rosas, Allan.
  • Scheinin, Martin
Description
ix, 323 p.; 26 cm.
Summary
"This volume brings together nine qualified human rights experts into a novel undertaking. Through examining topics like the death penalty, indigenous land rights, euthanasia and assisted suicide, non-discrimination in the field of social security, Holocaust denial and freedom of expression, and confidentiality in the context of HIV/AIDS, this book aims not only at contributing through scholarly essays to the debate on these issues but even more to the methodology of comparative analysis in the field of human rights." --Book Jacket.
Subject
  • Comparative law
  • Human rights > Interpretation and construction
  • Human rights
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-310) and index.
Contents
Introduction / Theodore S. Orlin and Martin Scheinin -- Is the death penalty an inhuman punishment / Manfred Nowak -- The death row phenomenon: a comparative analysis / Markus G. Schmidt -- The right to life/the right to die : the rights, their interrelationship and the jurisprudential problems / Theodore S. Orlin -- Holocaust denial and freedom of expression / Markus G. Schmidt and Raphaële L. Vojtovic -- The right to enjoy a distinct culture : indigenous and competing uses of land / Martin Scheinin -- The right to privacy : some implications for confidentiality in the context of HIV/AIDS -- The right not to be discriminated against : the case of social security / Catarina Krause and Martin Scheinin -- Epilogue / Allan Rosas.
ISBN
9521205938
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library