Transnational Legal Processes and Human Rights

Abstract

Contents: Foreword, Robin Palmer Introduction, Kyriaki Topidi and Lauren Fielder Part I The Construction and Evolution of Human Rights Norms in Transnational Legal Settings: Universal human rights and cultural relativity: conflict or reconciliation?, Ehsanul Haque The impact of, and resistance to, the use of foreign law on juvenile punishment in the United States, Ruth Hargrove and Roberta Thyfault Horizontal impact of human rights - dialogue between constitutional and international law, Barbara Grabowska The subsidiary application of the European Convention on Human Rights by constitutional courts in the Czech Republic and Poland, Marian Kokes and Piotr Mikuli Legislative attempts to prohibit the use of international law and Islamic law in US courts, Mark E. Wojcik. Part II The Protection of Cultural Difference within Human Rights Traditions: Preserving traditions or breaking the mold? Transnational human rights processes in the People's Republic of China and Hong Kong, Carole J. Petersen Combating religious defamation: an exploration of blasphemy in Islamic thought and international practice, Ali M. Abid African courts and African values: harmonizing international human rights and customary law, Lauren Fielder Exercising religious rights in European classrooms: value conflicts between the national, the supranational and the transnational, Kyriaki Topidi. Part III Transnational Economic Entities, Human Rights and Cultural Identity: Narrating indigenous rights, indigenous rights professionals and agreements between mining corporations and indigenous communities: A qui l'homme sauvage?, Deval Desai Corporate responsibility and human rights in the context of an international constitutional legal framework: the case of Angola, Angelica Anatolie Tsakiridis Index.