Suchergebnisse

Preface --Introduction /Mortimer Sellers --Law, reason, and emotion /Mortimer Sellers --Law's emotions /Robin West --The domestication of emotion /András Sajó --Mind and rights : neuroscience, philosophy, and the foundations of legal justice /Matthias Mahlmann --Rights, reason, and emotion /Daniel Mendonca --The law of honor /Anthony Appiah --Interactive reason and law /Ko Hasegawa --The wrath of reason and the great sentiment : vindicating emotion in law /Patricia Mindus.

"This book determines the boundary between parochial and cosmopolitan justice. To what extent should law recognize or support the political, historical, cultural, and economic differences among nations? Ten lawyers and philosophers from five continents consider whether certain states or persons deserve special treatment or exemptions or heightened duties under international law. Parochialism and cosmopolitanism are the two faces of international law, which recognizes our common humanity by protecting us in our differences"--

Universal Human Rights brings new clarity to the important and highly contested concept of universal human rights. This collection of essays explores the foundations of universal human rights in four sections devoted to their nature, application, enforcement, and limits, concluding that shared rights help to constitute a universal human community, which supports local customs and separate state sovereignty. The eleven contributors to this volume demonstrate from their very different perspectives how human rights can help to bring moral order to an otherwise divided world