Law's Ethical, Global and Theoretical Contexts by Upendra Bax... - 9781107538542

Law's Ethical, Global and Theoretical ContextsEssays in Honour of William Twining\nAuthor(s): Upendra Baxi, Christopher McCrudden, Abdul Paliwala\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781107538542, 978-1107538542\nSynopsis\nLaw's Ethical, Global and Theoretical Contexts examines William Twining's principal contributions to law and jurisprudence in the context of three issues which will receive significant scholarly attention over the coming decades. Part I explores human rights, including torture, the role of evidence in human rights cases, the emerging discourse on 'traditional values', the relevance of 'Southern voices' to human rights debates, and the relationship between human rights and peace agreements. Part II assesses the impact of globalization through the lenses of sociology and comparative constitutionalism, and features an analysis of the development of pluralistic ideas of law in the cont.