Domestic violence and international law /
"Domestic Violence in International Law [...] provides an original, provocative, and much needed legal framework for the coherent development of a norm against domestic violence in international human rights law...Dr. Meyersfeld has developed a thoroughgoing analysis that asks and answers the m...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; Portland :
Hart,
2012
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| Summary: | "Domestic Violence in International Law [...] provides an original, provocative, and much needed legal framework for the coherent development of a norm against domestic violence in international human rights law...Dr. Meyersfeld has developed a thoroughgoing analysis that asks and answers the most difficult questions often neglected by academics, lawyers and activists who dismiss the possibility that systemic violence against women could violate international law...Most fundamentally, this book is memorable for the hope and optimism it expresses about the transformative possibilities of international law. For without compromising such intensely human values as privacy, autonomy and cultural identity, Dr. Meyersfeld moves her reader with an abiding conviction: that international law, fueled with the power of transnational actors, can propel public actors to protect abused and vulnerable people in their most private worlds." - From foreword |
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| Item Description: | "First published in 2010. Reprinted in paperback in 2012"--T.p. verso |
| Physical Description: | xxxvi, 332 p. ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9781849463577 (pbk.) 1849463573 (pbk.) |