Outputs (5)

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.

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

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.