Reframing Human Rights in a Turbulent Era
Gráinne de Búrca
Reframing Human Rights in a Turbulent Era
Gráinne de Búrca
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This book examines recent critical accounts of human rights and argues that the international human rights movement remains powerful and significant at a time of rising illiberalism. Human rights law remains an important way of challenging injustice and should be strengthened and reformed rather than undermined or abandoned.
In this refreshing and inspirational book, Gráinne de Búrca directly confronts human rights sceptics among scholars from across the political spectrum to demonstrate that, in practice, human rights have maintained an extraordinary vigour in motivating and supporting grassroots mobilization against political repression and illiberalism. With her well-known skill in developing powerful and innovative arguments, she builds on the actual practice of human rights activists to illuminate the dynamism of the human rights project, activated and shaped through both its moral appeal, and the meaning and impact given to it by affected groups.
At last a book that makes the case for human rights and does it with great weight and authority. Gráinne de Búrca is proud to believe in human rights and supplies powerful reasons for our doing so too. Fresh and scholarly, de Búrcas account is a bracing change from the negativity that too often infuses academic treatments of the field.
This book comes at the right time in a world that looks too grim. Grainne de Búrca provides grounded empirical assessments of the work that human rights movements do through structuring modes of interacting across national boundaries. De Búrca offers a nuanced appreciation of a complex world full of "mixed and partial" achievements, often met with backlash. De Búrca demonstrates that, when politics permits, the processes of ratifying, reporting, and arguing about what human rights commitments mean can engender new opportunities to lessen (not erase) modes of subordination.
Finally we have a thoughtful book about human rights which captures the vibrancy and successes of the diverse human rights movement. Anyone who wants to understand the real rather than the imagined world of human rights should read de Búrca's study. She makes it clear that struggles for social justice will continue to coalesce around the language of human rights for a long time to come.
Gráinne de Búrca is Florence Ellinwood Allen Professor of Law at NYU. Previously, she held tenured posts at Harvard Law School, Fordham Law School, the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and Oxford University. Her fields of research are European Union law and international human rights law. She is co-editor of the Oxford University Press series Oxford Studies in European Law, and co-author of the leading OUP textbook EU Law. She is co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON) and serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of International Law, Global Constitutionalism and Legal Studies. She was a President of the International Society of Public Law ICON-S from 2015-2018, and is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.
In this refreshing and inspirational book, Gráinne de Búrca directly confronts human rights sceptics among scholars from across the political spectrum to demonstrate that, in practice, human rights have maintained an extraordinary vigour in motivating and supporting grassroots mobilization against political repression and illiberalism. With her well-known skill in developing powerful and innovative arguments, she builds on the actual practice of human rights activists to illuminate the dynamism of the human rights project, activated and shaped through both its moral appeal, and the meaning and impact given to it by affected groups.
At last a book that makes the case for human rights and does it with great weight and authority. Gráinne de Búrca is proud to believe in human rights and supplies powerful reasons for our doing so too. Fresh and scholarly, de Búrcas account is a bracing change from the negativity that too often infuses academic treatments of the field.
This book comes at the right time in a world that looks too grim. Grainne de Búrca provides grounded empirical assessments of the work that human rights movements do through structuring modes of interacting across national boundaries. De Búrca offers a nuanced appreciation of a complex world full of "mixed and partial" achievements, often met with backlash. De Búrca demonstrates that, when politics permits, the processes of ratifying, reporting, and arguing about what human rights commitments mean can engender new opportunities to lessen (not erase) modes of subordination.
Finally we have a thoughtful book about human rights which captures the vibrancy and successes of the diverse human rights movement. Anyone who wants to understand the real rather than the imagined world of human rights should read de Búrca's study. She makes it clear that struggles for social justice will continue to coalesce around the language of human rights for a long time to come.
Gráinne de Búrca is Florence Ellinwood Allen Professor of Law at NYU. Previously, she held tenured posts at Harvard Law School, Fordham Law School, the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and Oxford University. Her fields of research are European Union law and international human rights law. She is co-editor of the Oxford University Press series Oxford Studies in European Law, and co-author of the leading OUP textbook EU Law. She is co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON) and serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of International Law, Global Constitutionalism and Legal Studies. She was a President of the International Society of Public Law ICON-S from 2015-2018, and is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.