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Summary: Time to Challenge Lawyer's Domination
Comment: I've been working in, and studying, human rights for a long time now, and it has always struck me that all our agendas are set by the lawyer's view of human rights. Even campaign organisations like Amnesty and Human Rights Watch, basically adopt the legal definitions and accounts. But the concerns of lawyers are not necessarily those that human rights were meant to enshrine (that's one thing this book teaches you). I found this text liberating in that it makes you think outside the 'legal box', and its time we rescued human rights from it 'legalization'. The authors of the different papers really helped me to get a grip on the different views in this matter--could have done with some opinions from lawyers though. Still, I wish I'd had this text when I first started studying human rights, it would have made things much clearer.
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