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Chinese Legal Theory and Human Rights. Rearticulating Marxism, Liberalism, and the Classical Legal Tradition
2019
Does the Chinese academic discourse on human rights differ from the official one as put forward by the Chinese government? How do Chinese legal theories justify the attribution of human rights and their protection through the law in the context of an authoritarian state? Do Chinese academic theorizations on rights and the law have any capacity to influence the wider public debate in China despite the ideological constraints and censorship imposed on academics by the party in power? In order to answer these questions, this book explores the theories of law and rights by contemporary Chinese legal scholars, paying particular attention to their views on the rule of law and the explanation of r…
Cheng Liaoyuan e Wang Renbo, 'Quanli lun' ('权利论', 'Teoria dei diritti') Guangxi Normal University Press, 2014
2017
Chinese theories of rights are illustrated and critically assessed against traditional legal thinking and Marxist contemporary orthodox legal ideology.
What Human Rights are not (Or not Only). A Negative Path to Human Rights Practice
2014
What human rights are not (or not only) could offer an inclusive and intersectional approach able to get together the different dimensions (moral, legal, social ones) of the international and domestic practice of protecting individuals against violations and discriminations. The book aims at offering an overview of the current phase of the protection of rights, its relationships with and differences from natural rights and liberal rights of the Western tradition, an approach to their content and their possible uses in the domestic and international domain.