Beyond Human Rights: The Legal Status of the Individual in International Law
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| Anteprima |
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paradigm change is occurring, in the course of which human beings are
becoming the primary international legal persons. In numerous areas of
public international law, substantive rights and obligations of
individuals arguably flow directly from international law. The novel
legal status of humans in international law is now captured with a
concept borrowed from constitutional doctrine: international rights of
the person, as opposed to international law protecting persons.
Combining doctrinal analysis with current practice, this book is the
most comprehensive contemporary analysis of the legal status of the
individual. Beyond Human Rights, previously published in German and now
revised by the author in this English edition, not only deals with the
individual in international humanitarian law, international criminal law
and international investment law, but it also covers fields such as
consular law, environmental law, protection of individuals against acts
of violence and natural disasters, refugee law and labour law.
