Can human rights survive? / Conor Gearty.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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Human rights.

Civil rights.

1. Introduction

2. The crisis of authority

3. The crisis of legalism

4. The crisis of national security

5. Can human rights survive?

In this set of three essays, originally presented as the 2005 Hamlyn Lectures, Conor Gearty considers whether human rights can survive the challenges of the war on terror, the revival of political religion, and the steady erosion of the world's natural resources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780521685528

xvi, 174 p.