Description: This study combines anthropological and critical legal approaches to explore the conceptions of knowledge, expertise and learning of a network of Nordic human rights experts. It explores how the ideals of emancipation are realized in human rights action.
Review Quotes: "Miia Halme-Tuomisaari's constructively critical engagement with a Nordic community of human rights experts is both liberating and empowering. This is a path-breaking, insightful and even exciting study of the "human rights phenomenon."
Martti Koskenniemi, author of The Gentle Civilizer of Nations: The Rise and Fall of International Law 1870-1960.
"This is a wonderful book, not merely because of its style but because of its diversity and boldness. It reminds us how law is merely one form of societal control - an interesting, important and at times a dangerous one - and illustrates how lawyers are often a 'part of the problem."
Professor Elina Pirjatanniemi, Director of the Abo Akademi Institute for Human Rights.