• Preface
• Foreword / Dmitry Dedov
• Introduction: Russia, Strasbourg, and the paradox of a human rights backlash / Lauri Mälksoo
• Russia in the Council of Europe : participation à la carte / Petra Roter
• The use of European human rights law in Russian courts / Anton Burkov
• ECtHR and the Russian Constitutional Court : duet or duel? / Sergei Marochkin
• The Russian Constitutional Court and the Strasbourg Court : judicial pragmatism in a dual state / Alexei Trochev
• Philosophy behind human rights : Valery Zorkin vs the West? / Mikhail Antonov
• Russia's cases in the ECtHR and the question of implementation / Bill Bowring
• Russia's impact on the Strasbourg system : as seen by two former judges of the European Court of Human Rights / Elisabet Fura and Rait Mmaruste
• Egregious human rights violations in Chechnya : the continuing pursuit of justice / Philip Leach
• Property rights in Russia : reconsidering the socialist legal tradition / Vladislav Starzhenetskiy
• LGBT rights in Russia and European human rights standards / Dmitri Bartenev
• Nativist ideological responses to European/liberal human rights discourses in contemporary Russia / Benedikt Harzl
• Russia and the European Court of Human Rights : some general conclusions / Wolfgang Benedek.

Why has there been a human rights backlash in Russia despite the country having been part of the European human rights protection system since the late 1990s? To what extent does Russia implement judgments of the Strasbourg Court, and to what extent does it resist the implementation? This fascinating study investigates Russia's turbulent relationship with the European Court of Human Rights and examines whether the Strasbourg court has indeed had the effect of increasing the protection of human rights in Russia. Researchers and scholars of law and political science with a particular interest in human rights and Russia will benefit from this in-depth exploration of the background of this subject.
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• 1. Two Approaches to Human Rights
• 2. Taking the Rights out of Human Rights
• 3. When the Good Alone isn't Enough
• 4. The Egalitarianism of Human Rights
• 5. Human Rights, Human Agency and Respect: Extending Griffin's View
• 6. Griffin on Human Rights: Form and Substance
• 7. Personhood versus Human Needs as Grounds for Human Rights
• 8. Griffin on Human Rights
• 9. Griffin on Human Rights to Liberty
• 10. Replies.
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Human rights are one of the most controversial and widely discussed ideas in contemporary politics, ethics, and law. In recent decades, the philosophy of human rights has become one of the most lively areas in philosophy. One of the most significant contributors to the debate has been James Griffin, formerly White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford. In his book, On Human Rights, and in other work, Griffin has defended the view that contemporary judicial understandings of human rights rest on an insecure theoretical basis. This has had the result that the language of human rights has been over-extended, and consequently has less force where it really matters. On Griffin's view, human rights are best understood as protections of our agency and personhood, and he argues his case with reference to many real-life human rights cases. Griffin's book has led to a great deal of discussion, and this volume collects several of the most significant responses to Griffin by internationally leading moral and political philosophers. It also includes a response by Griffin himself. The book does not require first-hand knowledge of Griffin's work, and, while being required reading for scholars of human rights, will also make an ideal book for a undergraduate or graduate seminar on human rights.
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• Two approaches to human rights / Carl Wellman
• Taking rights out of human rights / John Tasioulas
• When the good alone isn't good enough / David A. Reidy
• The egalitarianism of human rights / Allen Buchanan
• Human rights, human agency and respect : extending Griffin's view / Rowan Cruft
• Griffin on human rights : form and substance / Roger Crisp
• Personhood versus human needs as grounds for human rights / David Miller
• Griffin on human rights / Brad Hooker
• Griffin on human rights to liberty / James W. Nickel
• Replies / James Griffin.

Human rights are one of the most controversial and widely discussed ideas in contemporary politics, ethics, and law. In recent decades, the philosophy of human rights has become one of the most lively areas in philosophy. One of the most significant contributors to the debate has been James Griffin, formerly White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford. In his book, On Human Rights, and in other work, Griffin has defended the view that contemporary judicial understandings of human rights rest on an insecure theoretical basis. This has had the result that the language of human rights has been over-extended, and consequently has less force where it really matters. On Griffin's view, human rights are best understood as protections of our agency and personhood, and he argues his case with reference to many real-life human rights cases. Griffin's book has led to a great deal of discussion, and this volume collects several of the most significant responses to Griffin by internationally leading moral and political philosophers. It also includes a response by Griffin himself. The book does not require first-hand knowledge of Griffin's work, and, while being required reading for scholars of human rights, will also make an ideal book for a undergraduate or graduate seminar on human rights.
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