The Progression of International Law Four Decades of the Israel Yearbook on Human Rights - an Anniversary Volume |
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| Editor:
| Dinstein, Yoram
Domb, Fania |
| ISBN: | 978-90-04-21911-3 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2011 |
| Publisher: | BRILL
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $313.00 |
Book Description:
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This volume was produced to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the Israel Yearbook on Human Rights. Forty years have yielded an impressive forty annual volumes. When it was started in 1971, the Yearbook was the first of its kind anywhere in the world. It has always understood its mandate as transcending the narrow borders of the discipline of either national or international human rights. From the outset, international humanitarian law andinternational criminal law were understood...
More DescriptionThis volume was produced to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the Israel Yearbook on Human Rights. Forty years have yielded an impressive forty annual volumes. When it was started in 1971, the Yearbook was the first of its kind anywhere in the world. It has always understood its mandate as transcending the narrow borders of the discipline of either national or international human rights. From the outset, international humanitarian law andinternational criminal law were understood as coming within the proper framework of the Yearbook, as were on occasion articles on diverse freedoms that may seem out of bounds to a strict interpreter of the phrase "human rights".