Research Catalog

Title

Human rights, justice, and constitutional empowerment / edited by C. Raj Kumar and K. Chockalingam.

Publication

New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• Kumar, C. Raj
• Chockalingam, K.
• Krishna Iyer, V. R., 1915-
• Kumar, C. Raj.
• Krishna Iyer, V. R., 1915-2014

Description

liv, 520 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Contributed articles with primary focus on India; commemorative volume for Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer, b. 1915.

Alternative Title

Human rights, justice & constitutional empowerment

Subject

Civil rights > India

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The promise and peril of transcendental jurisprudence : Justice Krishna Iyer's combat with the production of rightlessness in India / Upendra Baxi -- Constitutionalization and realization of human rights in India / Mahendra P. Singh -- Horizontal application of fundamental rights and state action in India / Sudhir Krishnaswamy -- Freedom of the press and the human rights discourse : managing the tensions / N. Ravi -- Reflections on free speech and broadcasting in India / Vikram Raghavan -- Equality and compensatory discrimination : the Indian experience / Parmanand Singh -- Corruption and its impact on human rights and the rule of law : governance perspectives / C. Raj Kumar -- The right to development and its implications for governance reform in India / Arjun Sengupta -- Judicial governance and the ideology of human rights : reflections from a social movement perspective / Balakrishnan Rajagopal --^
• Globalization and its impact on the realization of human rights : Indian perspective on a global canvas / Surya Deva -- The global dialogue among courts : social rights jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of India from a comparative perspective / Arun Thiruvengadam -- Human rights and environmental wrongs : integrating the right to environment and developmental justice in the Indian constitution / Charu Sharma -- The human rights movement : time to turn the searchlight inwards / Venkat lyer -- Criminal injustice : impunity for communal violence in India / Smita Narula -- Criminality of the marginalized sections or the lumpen-proletariat criminality : critical perspectives / B.B. Pande -- Towards making criminal justice human rights-friendly : policy choices and institutional strategies / N.R. Madhava Menon -- Victimology and victim justice : human rights perspectives / K. Chockalingam --^
• India's international obligations towards victims of human rights violations : implementation in domestic law and practice / Lutz Oette -- Sexual harassment and violence against women in India : constitutional and legal perspectives / D.K. Srivastava.

ISBN

• 9780195686913
• 0195686918

LCCN

^^2007394111

OCLC

• 86110787
• SCSB-10444307

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Harvard Library