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Author Lines, Richard, 1965- author.

Title Drug control and human rights in international law / Richard Lines ; foreword by William A. Schabas
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource
Contents Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Table of International Instruments; Table of International Documents; Table of Cases and National Legislation; 1 Drug Control, Human Rights and 'Parallel Universes'; 2 The 'Fourth Stage' of Drug Control: Development, Structure and Law; 3 Humanitarian or Stigmatising? -- The Contradictory Paradigms of International Drug Control; 4 Drug Control and Human Rights: Complementarities, Conflicts and Tensions between the Regimes; 5 The Object and Purpose of the International Drug Control Regime
6 The Case for Dynamic Interpretation of the International Drug Control Conventions7 Moving the 'thumb on the scales' -- Towards a Dynamic Human Rights-based Interpretation of International Drug Control Law; 8 The Future for a 'Fifth Stage' of Drug Control; Bibliography; Index
Summary This book explores how international drug control law should be interpreted within the context of international human rights law
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 13, 2017)
Subject Drugs -- Law and legislation.
Drug control -- International cooperation
Human rights.
Narcotic laws.
Human beings.
Drug and Narcotic Control
Narcotics -- legislation & jurisprudence
Legislation, Drug
Humans
Human Rights
Homo sapiens (species)
LAW -- International.
Drug control -- International cooperation
Drugs -- Law and legislation
Human rights
Narcotic laws
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