Incorporation of Universal Human Rights’ Norms in Municipal Law

Norms, Power, and Human Rights

If there is one field within the study of international affairs where progress has undeniably been made over the past two decades, it surely is the study of human rights, which has grown from a marginal enterprise in which only a few scholars were engaged to a full-blown subfield of international affairs that attracts some of the most talented scholars publishing in the most prestigious outlets...

Combating Illegal Organ Transplantation Under International Human Rights Law

Despite the fact that the concepts of organ transplantation and organ trafficking seem two completely distinct categories at first glance, sometimes they overlap with each other. This is especially in cases in which organ transplantation occurs from one country to another and for a financial exchange. There are two general indicators for determining the distinction between organ transplantation...

Human rights and bioethics: the universal declaration of human rights and UNESCO universal declaration of bioethics and human rights.

Moral law and human rights.

HE purpose of this paper is to examine some of the basic terms in the discussion of 1 the theme of this symposium on 'Ethics and the practice of medicine'. These terms can be grouped under the headings of moral law and human rights; for if these two terms are defined a great many of the principles, whose application to medical practice is in question, will have been examined. A general paper li...

Law, cosmopolitan law, and the protection of human rights

In Between Facts and Norms, Habermas articulates a system of rights, including human rights, within the democratic constitutional state. For Habermas, while human rights, like other subjective rights have moral content, they do not structurally belong to a moral system; nor should they be grounded in one. Instead, human rights belong to a positive and coercive legal order upon which individuals...