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Author:   René Provost ,  Colleen Sheppard
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   2013 ed.
Volume:   17
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.623kg
ISBN:  

9789400747098

ISBN 10:   9400747098
Pages:   290
Publication Date:   11 August 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments.- Contents.- Contributors.- About the Contributors.- Introduction: Human Rights through Legal Pluralism; René Provost and Colleen Sheppard.- Part I. Universality and Plurality: Foundational Claims.- Pluralistic Human Rights? Universal Human Wrongs?; Roderick A. Macdonald.- E Pluribus Unum – Bhinneka Tunggal Ika?  Universal Human Rights and the Fragmentation of International Law; Carlos Iván Fuentes, René Provost and Sam Walker.- International Human Rights and Global Legal Pluralism: A Research Agenda Frédéric Mégret.- Part II. Human Rights Values and Multiple Legal Orders: Connections and Contradictions.- The Protection of Human Dignity in Contemporary Legal Pluralism; Jean-Guy Belley.- Equality through the Prism of Legal Pluralism; Colleen Sheppard.- Labour Law in Canada as a Site of Legal Pluralism; Guylaine Vallée.- The Rigidity and Density of Discipline in Youth Rehabilitation Centres … Or Rules that Counter Rights; Julie Desrosiers.- Reconceptualising Social and Economic Rights: The right to housing and intersecting legal regimes; Jane Matthews Glenn.- Part III. Communities, Human Rights and Local Practices.- Transnational Human Rights and Local Activism: Mapping the Middle; Sally Engle Merry.- Thinking about Indigenous Legal Orders; Val Napoleon.- Wives’ Tales on Research in Bountiful; Angela Campbell.- Bibliography; Selected Bibliography on Human Rights and Legal Pluralism.- Index.

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