Defining Rights and Wrongs: Bureaucracy, Human Rights, and Public Accountability (Law and Society) - Hardcover

Langer, Rosanna L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0774813520 ISBN 13: 9780774813525

Verlag: University of British Columbia Press, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

The domestic processing of human rights complaints attracts a great deal of public attention and interest. Yet despite this scrutiny, there is still much below the surface that we don’t know. When people contact the human rights commission or a human rights lawyer, how do they think about and use human rights discourse? How do the legal professionals involved characterize the experiences they describe? How are complaints turned into cases? Can administrative systems be both effective and fair?

Defining Rights and Wrongs investigates the day-to-day practices of low-level officials and intermediaries as they manage the gap between social relations and legal meaning in order to construct domestic human rights complaints. It documents how agency staff struggle to manage a huge body of claims within a system of restrictive rules but expansive definitions of discrimination. It also examines how independent human rights lawyers and advocacy organizations challenge human rights commissions and seek to radically reform the existing commission/tribunal structure.

This book identifies the values that a human rights system should uphold if it is to be both fair and consistent with its own goals of promoting mutual respect and fostering the personal dignity and equal rights of citizens.

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Rosanna L. Langer is an assistant professor in the Law and Justice Department at Laurentian University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0774813520
• ISBN 13: 9780774813525
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 191
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