Human Rights Law and Personal Identity

by Jill Marshall

Book Overview

This book explores the role human rights law plays in the formation, and protection, of our personal identities. Drawing from a range of disciplines, Jill Marshall examines how human rights law includes and excludes specific types of identity, which feed into moral norms of human freedom and human dignity and their translation into legal rights.

The book takes on a three part structure. Part I traces the definition of identity, and follows...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415529727
• ISBN13: 9780415529723
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"