Human rights in emergencies / edited by Evan J. Criddle.

ISBN:

9781316690420

9781316336205

9781107535961

9781316688922

9781316689172

9781316689424

9781316689677

Title:

Human rights in emergencies / edited by Evan J. Criddle.

Author:

Criddle, Evan J., editor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Series:

ASIL studies in international legal theory

ASIL studies in international legal theory.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title ; Series information ; Title page ; Copyright information ; Dedication ; Table of contents ; List of Contributors ; Introduction: Testing Human Rights Theory During Emergencies ; Part I Designing a Human Rights Regime for Emergencies.

1 Constrained Derogation in Positive Human Rights Regimes Introduction ; On Positive Human Rights ; Constrained Derogation ; Oversight of Derogation ; Consider the Alternatives ; Conclusion ; 2 Protecting Human Rights During Emergencies: Delegation, Derogation, and Deference.

Introduction The Resilience of Derogation Standards ; Derogation Standards as Delegations ; Conclusion ; 3 Two Models of Normative Frameworks for Human Rights During Emergencies ; Introduction ; Severe Public Emergencies and Their Treatment in Contemporary Human Rights Law.

Defining Emergencies Emergency Frameworks ; Emergency Frameworks in Human Rights Treaties ; Type-Oriented Frameworks ; Undifferentiated Models ; Hybrid Models and Future Development ; Conclusion ; Part II Law, Politics, and Power.

4 Emergency and Escape: Explaining Derogations from Human Rights Treaties The Human Rights Treaty Derogations Regime ; The Two Faces of Derogation ; A Theory of Why States Derogate: Buying Time and Reducing Censure.

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Subject Term:

Human rights.

Emergency management.

Droits de l'homme (Droit international)

POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.

POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.

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Publication Date:

2016

Publication Information:

New York :

Cambridge University Press,

[2016]

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Summary

Public emergencies such as civil wars, natural disasters, and economic crises test the theoretical and practical commitments of international human rights law. During national crises, international law permits states to suspend many human rights protections in order to safeguard national security. States frequently overstep the limits of this authority, violating even peremptory human rights such as the prohibitions against torture and prolonged arbitrary detention. In this volume, leading scholars from law, philosophy and political science grapple with challenging questions concerning the character, scope, and salience of international human rights, and they explain how the law seeks to protect human rights during emergencies. The contributors also evaluate the law's successes and failures, and offer new proposals for strengthening respect for human rights.