(Source: Springer)
Springer is publishing a new book on the history of human rights
discourse in Finnish legal scholarship.
ABOUT THE 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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Juhana Salojärvi, LL.D., is a post-doctoral scholar at the
University of Helsinki. His main field is the history of legal scholarship.
Recently his research has also involved the legal history of steamships and the
historiography of human rights.
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