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The Transformation of Human Rights Fact-Finding by John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law Philip Alston, Lieff Cabraser Associate Clinical Professor of Law Director of the Human Rights Clinic Faculty Co-Director of the Human Rights Institute Sarah Knuckey is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Transformation of Human Rights Fact-Finding about?

La 4e de couverture indique : "Fact-finding is at the heart of human rights advocacy, and is often at the center of international controversies about alleged government abuses. In recent years, human rights fact-finding has greatly proliferated and become more sophisticated and complex, while also being subjected to stronger scrutiny from governments. Nevertheless, despite the prominence of fact-finding, it remains strikingly under-studied and under-theorized. Too little has been done to bring forth the assumptions, methodologies, and techniques of this rapidly developing field, or to open human rights fact-finding to critical and constructive scrutiny. The Transformation of Human Rights Fact-Finding offers a multidisciplinary approach to the study of fact-finding with rigorous and critical analysis of the field of practice, while providing a range of accounts of what actually happens. It deepens the study and practice of human rights investigations, and fosters fact-finding as a discretely studied topic, while mapping crucial transformations in the field. The contributions to this book are the result of a major international conference organized by New York University Law School's

Author

John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law Philip Alston, Lieff Cabraser Associate Clinical Professor of Law Director of the Human Rights Clinic Faculty Co-Director of the Human Rights Institute Sarah Knuckey

Publisher

Oxford University Press Oxford University Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780190239510

Subjects

Political Science, Law