Rights as Security

The Theoretical Basis of Security of Person
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-19-958911-1
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 464 g

The right to security of person is widely recognized but little understood. Courts, legislatures, and scholars disagree about how the right to security of person should be defined. This book investigates the meaning of the right to security of person through an analysis of its constituent parts. Applying an original conceptual analysis of 'security', the right to security of person imposes both positive and negative duties. Also, identifying the interests to be
protected by the right requires a theory of personhood or wellbeing such as Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum's 'capabilities approach'. It is accepted that any existing legal rights to security of person must be artificially delineated in order not to overstep the boundaries of other rights. In recognition
of the naturally broad meaning of the right to security of person, it is proposed that human rights law as a whole should be seen as a mechanism to further security of person: rights as security.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Powell, Rhonda

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte

Über Autor(innen)

Rhonda Powell is a senior lecturer in law at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Her research interests include human rights law, health law, and gender issues, particularly women's reproductive rights. Dr Powell holds a DPhil from the Centre for Socio-legal Studies at the University of Oxford, an LLM in Human Rights Law from the University of Nottingham, and an LLB(Hons) and BA from the University of Otago, New Zealand.