Overview
- Offers an innovative approach to the history of human rights
- Presents a pioneering work on the history of legal scholarship in Finland
- Includes an illustrative case-study on the postwar history of legal ideas
Part of the book series: Studies in the History of Law and Justice (SHLJ, volume 16)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book investigates the origins and development of human rights discourse in Finnish legal scholarship in the twentieth century. It provides a detailed account of how human rights were understood before they had legal relevance in a positivist sense, how they were adapted to Finnish legal thinking in the post-Second World War decades, how they developed into a mode of legal rhetoric and a type of legal argument during the 1970s and 1980s, and how they eventually became a significant paradigm in legal thinking in the 1990s. The book also demonstrates how rights discourse infiltrated the discussion regarding problems that were previously addressed in arguments concerning morals, social justice and equity.
Although the book focuses on the history of Finnish legal scholarship, it is also interesting from a global perspective for two reasons: Firstly, it demonstrates how an idea of international law is transplanted and diffused into national legal thinking; Finland is an illustrative example in this regard. Secondly, it offers insights into the general history of human rights.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Human Rights Redefining Legal Thought
Book Subtitle: The History of Human Rights Discourse in Finnish Legal Scholarship
Authors: Juhana Mikael Salojärvi
Series Title: Studies in the History of Law and Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29533-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-29532-5Published: 17 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-29535-6Published: 17 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-29533-2Published: 05 October 2019
Series ISSN: 2198-9842
Series E-ISSN: 2198-9850
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 237
Topics: Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Human Rights, History of Modern Europe, History of Science