Cart

Unlocking potential with the best learning and research solutions

Look Inside Humanity across International Law and Biolaw

Humanity across International Law and Biolaw

Name: Humanity across International Law and Biolaw
Price: 130.00 USD
Availability: LimitedAvailability
ISBN: 9781139699303

$130.00 USD

Editors:
Britta van Beers, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Luigi Corrias, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Wouter G. Werner, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

Britta van Beers, Luigi Corrias, Wouter Werner, Harmen van der Wilt, Edwin Bikundo, Luigi Corrias, Roger Brownsword, George Annas, Florence Bellivier, Wouter Veraart, Rene Urueña, Jan C. Joerden, Bartha M. Knoppers, Vural Özdemir, Ellen Hey, Kristof Van Assche, Sigrid Sterckx

View all contributors

Date Published: No date available
availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
format: Adobe eBook Reader
isbn: 9781139699303

Find out more about Cambridge eBooks

Rate & review

$ 130.00 USD
Adobe eBook Reader

You will be taken to ebooks.com for this purchase

Buy eBook Add to wishlist

Other available formats:
Hardback

Looking for an inspection copy?

This title is not currently available on inspection

Description

Contents

Resources

Courses

About the Authors

The concepts of humanity, human dignity and mankind have emerged in different contexts across international law and biolaw. This raises many different questions. What are the aims for which 'humanity' is mobilised? How do these aims affect the ensuing interpretations of this concept? What are the negative counterparts of humanity, mankind and human dignity? And what happens if a concept developed in one particular context is taken up in another? By bringing together research from international law, biolaw and legal theory, this volume answers such questions by analysing how the concepts overlap and contradict each other across the disciplines. The result is not an examination of what humanity is but rather what it does and what it brings about in a variety of contexts.
- Studies the concept of humanity across international law and biolaw, thereby offering a broad, but still detailed, view of a core concept in law
- Links older uses of the concept of humanity with its applications in the relatively new field of biolaw, thereby showing how the concept has changed over time
- Combines doctrinal and philosophical analysis, making this a valuable resource for legal philosophers and both doctrinally and theoretically oriented lawyers
Read more
Customer reviews

Not yet reviewed
Be the first to review

Log in to review

Review was not posted due to profanity
×

, create a review

(If you're not , sign out)

Please enter the right captcha value

Please enter a star rating.

Your review must be a minimum of 12 words.

How do you rate this item?

Reviews must contain at least 12 words about the product.

×

Product details
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9781139699303
- contains: 3 b/w illus. 1 table
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
1. Probing the boundaries of humanity Britta van Beers, Luigi Corrias and Wouter Werner
Part I. Crimes against Humanity:
2. Crimes against humanity: a category hors concours in (international) criminal law? Harmen van der Wilt
3. Humanity's exemplary justice: from Hostis to Hostia Humani Generis Edwin Bikundo
4. The inhuman stain: representing humanity in international criminal law Luigi Corrias
5. Crimes against humanity, simple crime, and human dignity Roger Brownsword
6. Crimes against the human species ('Type II crimes against humanity explained') George Annas
Part II. Human Rights and Human Dignity:
7. Human remains in French law: the snare of personification Florence Bellivier
8. Not in our name! Losing humanity in current human rights discourse Wouter Veraart
9. Deciding what is humane: towards a critical reading of humanity as a normative standard in international law Rene Urueña
10. The promise of human dignity, and some of its juridical consequences, especially for medical criminal law Jan C. Joerden
Part III. The Commons of Mankind:
11. The concept of humanity and biogenetics Bartha M. Knoppers and Vural Özdemir
12. Interdependencies, conceptualizations of humanity and regulatory regimes Ellen Hey
13. The protection of human dignity in research involving human body material Kristof Van Assche and Sigrid Sterckx
14. The many faces of humanity: some concluding remarks Britta van Beers, Luigi Corrias and Wouter Werner.
Look Inside
Editors
Britta van Beers, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Britta van Beers is an assistant professor in the Department of Legal Theory at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, where her research and teaching involve the legal-philosophical aspects of biomedical regulation.
Luigi Corrias, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Luigi Corrias is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, within the Boundaries of Law research programme. His research deals with community and identity in the European and international legal order.
Wouter G. Werner, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Wouter Werner is Professor of Public International Law at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. He is also Programme Director of the research group Boundaries of Law, chair of the COST Action on the constitutionalization of international law and co-founder of the Center for the Politics of Transnational Law at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
Contributors
Britta van Beers, Luigi Corrias, Wouter Werner, Harmen van der Wilt, Edwin Bikundo, Luigi Corrias, Roger Brownsword, George Annas, Florence Bellivier, Wouter Veraart, Rene Urueña, Jan C. Joerden, Bartha M. Knoppers, Vural Özdemir, Ellen Hey, Kristof Van Assche, Sigrid Sterckx