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Human Rights Transformed: Positive Rights and Positive Duties

The book was researched and written single-handedly during a three-year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. Because it constructed a new way of understanding human rights, it required wide-ranging research and analysis of political theory, social policy, regulatory theory and international and comparative law. The theoretical framework was then applied to a detailed analysis of legal materials from the UK, EU, India, South Africa, Canada, the US, and international and regional human rights law. Remedial structures and non-legal alternatives were also explored. Site visits were crucial to provide the social context. Five stand-alone articles could have been written from the eight chapters.