Jatindra Kumar Das (2016) Human Rights Law and Practice. New Delhi, PHI Learning Private Limited.

Abstract

Human rights law and practice offers a lucid, comprehensive understanding of human rights law through national and international human rights instruments and case law. In the preface, the author establishes the premise around which this book is constructed-that the term 'human rights' is ambiguous and can be used to describe a variety of legal relationships of entitlement, immunity, privilege and power with different results due to the different types of protection and procedures involved. Das questions the description of human rights as 'inalienable rights' and explains the evolution of the 'human' aspect of the term, with its origins in the French Revolution. The preface also echoes Amartya Sen's question regarding whether a theory of human rights is required. The book aims to answer this question in the affirmative by expounding on various theories that form the philosophical basis of the concept of human rights.