Peoples' Rights

Philip Alston is Professor of International Law at the European University Institute in Florence. He is the editor of The UN and Human Rights (OUP 1995) and The EU and Human Rights (OUP 1999) and is the General Editor of the European Journal of International Law.

• Introduction ; The Right of Self-Determination in International Law: Its Development and Future ; Reconciling Five Competing Conceptual Structures of Indigenous Peoples' Claims in International and Comparative Law ; Minority Rights Revisited: New Glimpses of an Old Issue ; Globalization and the Right to Development ; Environmental Rights ; Peoples' Rights - Their Rise and Fall

Overall, this is a timely and informative volume ... the volume's most distinctive contribution, namely, its anti-essentialist perspective on people's rights and the elucidation of the ways in which rights can have both empowering and contstraining effects depending on their discoursive articulations and the political ends that the latter serve.