Contents
Introduction
Part I. All kinds of everyone
1. Framing the project' of international human rights law reflections on the dysfunctional family of the Universal Declaration
2. Restoring the human in human rights personhood and doctrinal innovation in the UN disability convention
3. The poverty of (rights) jurisprudence
Part II Interconnections
4. Foundations beyond law
5. The interdisciplinarity of human rights
6. Atrocity law human punishing human rights violators
7. Violence in the name of human rights
8. Reinventing human rights in an era of hyper-globalisation a few wayside remarks
Part III Platforms
9. Reconstituting the universal human rights as a regional idea
10. The embryonic sovereign and the biological citizen the biopolitics of reproductive rights
11. Spoils for which victor? Human rights within the democratic state
12. Devoluted human rights
13. Does enforcement matter?
Part IV Pressures
14.Winners and others accounting for international law's favourites
15. Resisting panic lessons about the role of human rights during the long decade after
16. What's in a name? The prohibitions on torture and ill treatment today
17. Do human rights treaties make enough of a difference?

Human rights are considered one of the big ideas of the early twenty-first century. This book presents in an authoritative and readable form the variety of platforms on which human rights law is practiced today, reflecting also on the dynamic inter-relationships that exist between these various levels. The collection has a critical edge. The chapters engage with how human rights law has developed in its various subfields, what (if anything) has been achieved and at what cost, in terms of expected or produced unexpected side-effects. The authors pass judgment about the consistency, efficacy and success of human rights law (set against the standards of the field itself or other external goals) . Written by world-class academics, this Companion will be essential reading for students and scholars of human rights law.