All Outputs (14)

On the Human Rights Question (2018)
Journal Article
O'Connell, P. (2018). On the Human Rights Question. Human Rights Quarterly, 40(4), 962-988. https://doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2018.0051

There is a marked disjuncture today between the generalized critique and rejection of human rights by many progressive and critical commentators, and the embrace of the language of human rights by a variety of movements around the world engaged in st... Read More about On the Human Rights Question.

Law, Marxism and Method (2018)
Journal Article
O'Connell, P. (2018). Law, Marxism and Method. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism and Critique, 16(2), 647-655. https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v16i2.1003

Law is crucial to the maintenance and reproduction of capitalism. While Marx never produced a comprehensive theory of law, state and rights, there is much in his work, and in the broader Marxist tradition, that can help us understand the nature and r... Read More about Law, Marxism and Method.

Human Rights Contesting The Displacement Thesis (2017)
Journal Article
O'Connell, P. (2018). Human Rights Contesting The Displacement Thesis. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 69(1), 19-35. https://doi.org/10.53386/nilq.v69i1.76

Masking Barbarism: Human Rights in the Contemporary Global Order (2017)
Book
O'Connell, P. (2017). Masking Barbarism: Human Rights in the Contemporary Global Order. Hart

It is increasingly accepted that the promise of a globalised human rights systems, sits uneasily with the lived reality of a significant majority of the world's population. Human rights scholars, recognising this disjuncture, have suggested alternati... Read More about Masking Barbarism: Human Rights in the Contemporary Global Order.

‘Let Them Eat Cake: Socio-Economic in an Age of Austerity’ (2013)
Book Chapter
O'Connell, P. (2013). ‘Let Them Eat Cake: Socio-Economic in an Age of Austerity’. In A. Nolan, R. O'Connell, & C. Harvey (Eds.), Human Rights and Public Finance : Budgets and the Promotion of Economic and Social Rights. Hart

Vindicating Socio-Economic Rights: International Standards and Comparative Experiences (2012)
Book
O'Connell, P. (2012). Vindicating Socio-Economic Rights: International Standards and Comparative Experiences. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203126653

Notwithstanding the widespread and persistent affirmation of the indivisibility and equal worth of all human rights, socio-economic rights continue to be treated as the "Cinderella" of the human rights corpus. At a domestic level this has resulted in... Read More about Vindicating Socio-Economic Rights: International Standards and Comparative Experiences.

Social and economic rights (2012)
Book Chapter
O'Connell, P., & Katrougalos, G. (2012). Social and economic rights. In M. Tushnet, T. Fleiner, & C. Saunders (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Constitutional Law. Routledge

The Death of Socio-Economic Rights (2011)
Journal Article
O'Connell, P. (2011). The Death of Socio-Economic Rights. Modern Law Review, 74(4), 532-554. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2230.2011.00859.x

Over the last decade, apex courts in Canada, India, and South Africa – which have traditionally been viewed as socio-economic rights friendly – have issued judgments fundamentally at variance with the meaningful protection of socio-economic rights. T... Read More about The Death of Socio-Economic Rights.

Brave New World?: Human Rights in the Era of Globalisation (2010)
Book Chapter
O'Connell, P. (2010). Brave New World?: Human Rights in the Era of Globalisation. In M. Baderin, & M. Ssenyonjo (Eds.), International Human Rights Law: Six Decades After the UDHR and Beyond. Ashgate

Globalization is the meta-narrative of our age.1 Few, if any, contemporary social phenomena, whether migration, global warming, or the present global economic crisis, are deemed intelligible outside the easy, intuitively appealing explanatory shortha... Read More about Brave New World?: Human Rights in the Era of Globalisation.

The Human Right to Health in an Age of Market Hegemony (2010)
Book Chapter
O'Connell, P. (2010). The Human Right to Health in an Age of Market Hegemony. In J. Harrington, & M. Stuttaford (Eds.), Global Health and Human Rights: Legal and Philosophical Perspectives. Routledge

Recognition that individuals and communities enjoy a human right to health has, progressively, come to be widely accepted at the international, regional and domestic levels. First with the post-Second World War consensus on human rights, and subseque... Read More about The Human Right to Health in an Age of Market Hegemony.

Not Seeing the Forest for the Trees: A Reply to Rhoda Howard-Hassmann (2009)
Journal Article
O'Connell, P. (2009). Not Seeing the Forest for the Trees: A Reply to Rhoda Howard-Hassmann. Human Rights Law Review, 9(1), 135. https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngn039

Anxious Scrutiny in the Irish Courts: Too Little, Too Late? (2008)
Journal Article
O'Connell, P. (2008). Anxious Scrutiny in the Irish Courts: Too Little, Too Late?. Hibernian law journal, 8, 75

On Reconciling Irreconcilables: Neo-liberal Globalisation and Human Rights (2007)
Journal Article
O'Connell, P. (2007). On Reconciling Irreconcilables: Neo-liberal Globalisation and Human Rights. Human Rights Law Review, 7(3), 483-509. https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngm015

This article examines the tensions between the presently dominant form of globalisation, which will be referred to as neo-liberal globalisation, and the protection of human rights. The argument developed and defended here, in essence, is that one can... Read More about On Reconciling Irreconcilables: Neo-liberal Globalisation and Human Rights.

The Human Right to Health and the Privatisation of Irish Health Care (2005)
Journal Article
O'Connell, P. (2005). The Human Right to Health and the Privatisation of Irish Health Care. Medico-legal journal of Ireland, 11(2), 76

This article considers the human rights implications of government moves to introduce greater private for profit involvement in the Irish health care system. It is argued that such a policy development is likely to conflict the states international h... Read More about The Human Right to Health and the Privatisation of Irish Health Care.