Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Group Rights: Rights, Subjects and Legal Personality -- 'Group Rights' in Contemporary International Law -- Features of Existing Group Rights and Discussions on Group Rights -- Reappraising the Concept of Group Rights in International Law -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
The Concept of Group Rights in International Law offers a critical appraisal of the concept of group rights in international law on the basis of an extensive survey of existing group rights in contemporary international law. Among some of its findings is the observation that an ideological way of arguing about this legal category is widespread among scholars as well as practitioners; it sees this ideological framing as one of the main reasons why international law has so far been very reluctant to provide group rights and to call them by their name. Accordingly, the book re-evaluates the conce
