Human Rights in Action

Miia Halme-Tuomisaari, PhD., social anthropology (2008), LLM, public international law (2003), University of Helsinki, is a Post-Doctorate Scholar at the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights. Her ongoing research project examines human rights expertise.

"Miia Halme-Tuomisaari's constructively critical engagement with a Nordic community of human rights experts is both liberating and empowering. This is a path-breaking, insightful and even exciting study of the “human rights phenomenon.”Martti Koskenniemi, author of The Gentle Civilizer of Nations: The Rise and Fall of International Law 1870-1960."This is a wonderful book, not merely because of its style but because of its diversity and boldness. It reminds us how law is merely one form of societal control – an interesting, important and at times a dangerous one – and illustrates how lawyers are often a ‘part of the problem."Professor Elina Pirjatanniemi, Director of the Abo Akademi Institute for Human Rights.

• AcknowledgementsChapter one: IntroductionChapter Two: Emergence of the Human Rights Phenomenon in FinlandChapter Three: The Scandinavian Network of Human Rights Experts Chapter Four: Training for ExpertiseChapter Five: From Translation to Advocation through LawChapter Six: Profile of ExpertiseConclusions, Bibliography, Index.