Legal Cultures and Human Rights : : Volume 1: The Challenge of Diversity / / edited by Kirsten Hastrup.

• TeilnehmendeR: Hastrup, Kirsten,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : Brill | Nijhoff,, 2001.
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

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...

Table of Contents

• 1 . Accommodating Diversity in a Global Culture of Rights: An Introduction
• K. Hastrup .
• 2 . Cultural Rights and Minorities: On Human Rights and Group Accommodation
• A. Eide .
• 3 . Copyrighting Culture: Indigenous Peoples and Intellectual Rights
• I. Sjørslev .
• 4 . Legal Cultures in the Danish Realm: Greenland in Focus
• H. Petersen .
• 5 . Cultural Tradition and National Human Rights Standards in Conflict
• B. Ibhawoh .
• 6 . Human Rights and National Legal Cultures: The Case of Labour Law
• J. Dalberg-Larsen .
• 7 . Redefining Rights: Islamic Perspectives and the Cairo Declaration
• J.B. Simonsen .
• 8 . Rights Talk: The Case of the United States
• H. Porsdam .
• 9 . Anyone for Golf? Cultural Values, Human Rights and Developmentalism in Contemporary Malaysia
• S. Lawson .
• 10 . Collective Cultural Rights: Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem?
• K. Hastrup .
• List of contributors.
• Index.