Critical Essays on Human Rights Criticism.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Human Rights Critics and Defenders: An Introduction -- Part I Critique of Human Rights Criticism -- 1 The Fate ofHumanRights in Indifferent Societies - (i.e. in More and More Constitutional Democracies) -- 2 Neither Invariant nor Sacrosanct - Human Rights Critique and Deliberation Past and Present -- 3 One Step Too Far - Some Philosophical and Political Reflections on the Current Critique of Human Rights -- 4 Liberal Rights Between Radical Democratic Critique and Liberal Failure -- Part II Social Challenges to Human Rights -- 5 The War on Terror and the Decline of Human Rights -- 6 From Human Rights to Humanity's Law - The Current State of Play -- Part III Populism and Human Rights -- 7 Populism andHumanRights - From Disenchantment to Democratic Riposte -- 8 Land Reform in the Time of Populism - The Law and Politics of Land Reform in South Africa -- 9 The Ideological Turn in Bulgarian Constitutional Discourse - The Rise Against 'Genders' -- 10 Human Rights Watchdogs Face Illiberal Rulers in Europe -- Part IV New Attitudes of International and National Courts -- 11 The Demise of the Rights of Migrants and Refugees under the European Convention on Human Rights -- 12 Functional Disobedience, National Courts and the ECtHR -- 13 Human Rights Law and Constitutional Democracies in Latin America - Interactions, Contestations and Engagement -- 14 The 2018 Constitutional Referendum in Ecuador - The Failure of the Inter-American System to Protect Democracy -- 15 Prosecutions and Politics in a Constitutional State - Prosecution of Heads of State in Post-apartheid South Africa -- 16 Reframing Powerlessness Inside and Outside Courts - Claims of Harm in Equality Cases in Brazil and South Africa.

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