POSTPONED - Book Launch: Human Rights in Times of Transition - Liberal Democracies and Challenges of National Security - Kasey McCall-Smith, Andrea Birdsall & Elisenda Casanas Adam
Location:
Virtual Event
Date/time
Wed 16 December 2020
*** This event has been postponed until the New Year ***
The Global Justice Academy and the Edinburgh Centre for International and Global Law present
Book Launch:
Human Rights in Times of Transition
Liberal Democracies and Challenges of National Security
Edited by Kasey McCall-Smith, Andrea Birdsall (SSPS), & Elisenda Casanas Adam (eds)
Book can be viewed on the publisher website
Book contributors will be discussing their chapters
About the seminar
Contextualizing human rights goals, structures and challenges in the immediate post-UDHR era, the chapters of this new volume analyse the role that national security has played in driving competition between individual rights and rhetoric-laden, democracy-reinforcing approaches to collective rights of security. Internationally diverse authors offer evocative insights into the ways in which law is used to manipulate both intra and interstate relationships, and demonstrate the constant tensions raised by a human rights system that is fundamentally state-centric though defined by individuals’ needs and demands. Acknowledging the challenges in contemporary human rights practice, policy and discourse as features of transitional eras in human rights, this forward-thinking book identifies opportunities to correct past inadequacies and promote a stronger system for the future.
Image Credit: Photo by Kasey McCall-Smith