Where Law and Politics Meet Looking at Human Rights Law through the Lens of Legitimacy

This lecture starts with a confession. The author find it very hard to delete the phone numbers of people who have passed away from his smartphone. This means that many great Dutch human rights scholars who are no longer among us still have a place in his phone -- most notably Gerti Hesseling, Fried...

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Published inNetherlands quarterly of human rights Vol. 33; no. 4; pp. 512 - 524
Main Author Oomen, Barbara
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.12.2015
Intersentia N.V
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Baehr, Peter
Confession
Conversation
Foreign policy
Human rights
Intellectuals
International law
Legitimacy
Risk
Scholarship
Travel
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Summary:This lecture starts with a confession. The author find it very hard to delete the phone numbers of people who have passed away from his smartphone. This means that many great Dutch human rights scholars who are no longer among us still have a place in his phone -- most notably Gerti Hesseling, Fried van Hoof and Peter Baehr. Of course, this often reminds him of them, most particularly in Peter's case. The topic of the conversation would be the relationship between law, politics and human rights. In this article, a first challenge would be to update Peter Baehr on the three most important developments in international human rights law since the year of his sad departure, in 2010. First of all, he would emphasise how the need for protection of human rights, regrettably, is topical as ever. These, in sum, are some of the issues he would discuss with Peter Baehr, if he would have the chance.
ISSN:0924-0519
2214-7357
DOI:10.1177/016934411503300407