Law Addressing Diversity
Title | Law Addressing Diversity PDF eBook |
Author | Gijs Kruijtzer |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | 228 |
Release | 2017-09-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3110423405 |
Of late, historians have been realising that South Asia and Europe have more in common than a particular strand in the historiography on "the rise of the West" would have us believe. In both world regions a plurality of languages, religions, and types of belonging by birth was in premodern times matched by a plurality of legal systems and practices. This volume describes case-by-case the points where law and social diversity intersected.
Law Addressing Diversity
Title | Law Addressing Diversity PDF eBook |
Author | Gijs Kruijtzer |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | 228 |
Release | 2017-09-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3110423324 |
Of late, historians have been realising that South Asia and Europe have more in common than a particular strand in the historiography on "the rise of the West" would have us believe. In both world regions a plurality of languages, religions, and types of belonging by birth was in premodern times matched by a plurality of legal systems and practices. This volume describes case-by-case the points where law and social diversity intersected.
Legal Practice and Cultural Diversity
Title | Legal Practice and Cultural Diversity PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | 366 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9780754675471 |
This collection considers how contemporary cultural and religious diversity challenges legal practice. Comparative in analysis, this study places particular cases in their widest context, taking into account international and transnational influences.
Legal Cultures and Human Rights
Title | Legal Cultures and Human Rights PDF eBook |
Author | Kirsten Hastrup |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 207 |
Release | 2021-08-04 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9004480773 |
Cultural diversity, as expressed for instance in different normative orders or legal cultures, poses both a practical and a theoretical challenge to the idea of universal human rights. In the present volume, the authors seek to address and contain this challenge with a view to the changing nature of the global society. While 'culture' is sometimes signposted as an obstacle to human rights on the ground, this volume suggests that in so far as the global 'culture of human rights' is primarily seen as a formal and institutional order based on a particular view of equal human worth, local cultures cannot trump it. The main point is that the culture of human rights is inclusive of all and must maintain a standard by which all peoples and cultures can measure their own performances. Further, and as demonstrated in the present volume from a range of disciplines such as law, literature, history and anthropology, culture is not a mental prison but a particular outlook upon the world, for ever changing in response to new experiences and insights.
Diversity in Practice
Title | Diversity in Practice PDF eBook |
Author | Spencer Headworth |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 455 |
Release | 2016-04 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1107123658 |
Leading scholars look beyond the rhetoric of diversity to reveal the ongoing obstacles to professional success for traditionally disadvantaged groups.
Ethno-Cultural Diversity and Human Rights
Title | Ethno-Cultural Diversity and Human Rights PDF eBook |
Author | Gaetano Pentassuglia |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 389 |
Release | 2017-11-23 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9004328785 |
Drawing from diverse scholarship in international law, legal and moral philosophy, and political science, Ethno-Cultural Diversity and Human Rights brings prominent experts together to address contested dimensions of the role of ethno-cultural groups in human rights discourse.
Cultural Diversity in International Law
Title | Cultural Diversity in International Law PDF eBook |
Author | Lilian Richieri Hanania |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 341 |
Release | 2014-04-24 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1134454813 |
The UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (CDCE) was adopted in 2005 and designed to allow States to protect and promote cultural policies. This book examines the effectiveness of the CDCE and offers ways by which its implementation may be improved to better attain its objectives. The book provides insight in how the normative character of the CDCE may be strengthened through implementation and increasingly recurrent practice based on its provisions. Hailing from various fields of international law, political and social sciences, the book’s contributors work to promote discussions on the practical and legal influence of the CDCE, and to identify opportunities and recommendations for a more effective application. Part One of the book assesses the effectiveness of the CDCE in influencing other areas of international law and the work conducted by other intergovernmental organizations through the recognition of the double nature (cultural and economic) of cultural goods and services. Part Two focuses on the practice of the CDCE beyond the recognition of the specificity of cultural goods and services in international law by addressing the CDCE’s call for greater international cooperation and stronger integration of cultural concerns in development strategies at the national and regional levels. The book will be of great use and interest to academics and practitioners in law, social and political sciences, agents of governmental and international organizations, and cultural sector stakeholders.