LAWS 2105 Study Guide - Final Guide: Unlawful Combatant, Lynn Hunt, Conventional Warfare

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Law
• Course: LAWS 2105
• Professor: Amy Bartholomew

Document Summary

Lynn hunt discusses how human rights gradually entered public discourse after various points in history. Self-evidence is paradoxical because if equality of rights is so self-evident, then why did this assertion have to be made and why was it only made in specific times and places pg. Self-evidence replies upon emotional appeal, it needs to strike a chord with people. The article also notes the importance of bodily autonomy in the formation of human rights (example: people started condemning acts of public torture and execution) The bush administration looked to find ways to narrow the definition of torture these development make it necessary to think anew about how we break the link between law and brutality. That"s against human rights but he"s the enemy and a war criminal so it"s okay difficult to pin down what is torture since pain and mental suffering are not operationalized. Connection self-evident human rights/ hypocritical concept since assertion had to be made.