Современное научное понимание прав человека (аналитический обзор книги "Право прав человека")

Abstract

The book is the result of the legal workshop held at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London in July 1994 and all the chapters in this volume are revised versions of the papers delivered there. The book is a collection of legal essays and all their authors are lawyers, whose primary goal was seeking an understanding of the relationship between the law and human rights. Human rights being one of the most interdisciplinary fields of study, are viewed in the book from philosophical, anthropological, political, historical and even rhetorical perspectives, while the aspects of the law relating to human rights have been of primary concern of the authors. The book is not so much about "defending", "vindicating" or "guaranteeing" human rights as it is about understanding what this deceptively simple phrase means. The tone of this book is rather optimistic as human rights language has a considerable potential to achieve justice and fairness, thus being an agent of change on behalf of the poor, the marginalized and the dispossessed, "those many people whose human rights are continuously mocked by their inhuman daily predicaments".