Human rights and humanitarian norms as customary law

By:

"Meron, Theodor"

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford; Clarendon Press; 1989Description: 263pISBN:

9780198252399

Subject(s):

Human rights

DDC classification:

341.481 MER

Summary: The aim of this study is to place the subject of human rights within the discipline of international law. The inquiry looks first at the relationship between human rights and humanitarian norms and customary law. It then concerns itself with the relationship between human rights and humanitarian norms on the one hand, and the law of state responsibility on the other.;The author examines how the contemporary human rights and humanitarian law meshes with the general principles of international law and particularly with the principles governing the international responsibility of the state. The text then clarifies the status of international human rights and humanitarian norms in public international law, and examines the sources, evidence and process of creation of such rights.

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The aim of this study is to place the subject of human rights within the discipline of international law. The inquiry looks first at the relationship between human rights and humanitarian norms and customary law. It then concerns itself with the relationship between human rights and humanitarian norms on the one hand, and the law of state responsibility on the other.;The author examines how the contemporary human rights and humanitarian law meshes with the general principles of international law and particularly with the principles governing the international responsibility of the state. The text then clarifies the status of international human rights and humanitarian norms in public international law, and examines the sources, evidence and process of creation of such rights.

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