Description: This collection examines the role and value of domestic rights instruments in divided and post-conflict societies, approaching the subject from a comparative and theoretical perspective.
Brief description: Colin Harvey is Professor of Human Rights Law, School of Law, Queen's University Belfast, UK.
Review Quotes: "... the contributions are all well written and offer the reader an understanding of the challenges of human rights and constitutionalism within divided societies. Moreover, this volume is rich in its thematic and geographic analysis. The use of concrete examples drawing on case studies from around the world is highly useful. It not only increases our appreciation of somewhat abstract debates of the issue and concretizes them, but it also allows the readers to reflect upon how different theories apply in practice and to perhaps reconsider them. Most importantly, it forces us to think realistically about the opportunities of human rights in divided societies and to be sensible to their limitations.All in all, the editors have put together a thought-provoking set of essays by both leading authorities and emerging scholars in human rights law, constitutional law, and political theory. Rights in Divided Societies is a stimulating collection of essays which merits the attention of scholars interested in issues surrounding comparative constitutional law, constitutional design, minority rights and multiculturalism in divided societies. I join the editors' aspiration that this collection will stimulate further comparative and theoretical legal scholarship on divided societies." --Yaniv Roznai, Public Law