Aims & Scope
Law & Ethics of Human Rights aspires to analyze and clarify the concepts of moral and legal rights, and to contribute to conflict resolution in human rights law. Each issue of LEHR focuses on one contemporary dilemma that raises major moral and legal questions. Each such dilemma is examined using an interdisciplinary approach to human rights law, an approach which strives to create associations between legal provisions and the philosophical thinking underlying them. Moreover, it is our hope that publishing the work of distinguished scholars from various countries will mitigate the problem of culturally insensitive application of human rights norms.
- The 2008 issue will address the topic of Demography and Human Rights and will examine the legal as well as moral concerns that arise when demographic considerations are used to shape public policy. Can a state strive to maintain a certain ethnic balance? Is it legitimate for the state to encourage higher birth rates, and if it is, can it do so along ethnic lines? The morality of such considerations is rarely addressed by legal scholars and political theorists. The increasing use of demographic considerations in public policy debates in Israel, Europe and other parts of the world makes the discussion of the morality of the demographic discourse and its implications for human rights (especially ethnic minorities and women) highly important.
- The 2009 issue will address the topic of Labor Rights in the Era of Globalization. The issue will explore such themes as the shifting philosophical foundations and conceptual framework of international labor rights, and their relations to international human rights, transnational labor regulation. It will also consider specific policy changes and their conceptualization of rights, including the right of freedom of association, minimum wage, human trafficking and labor migration.