This collection of 12 essays attempts to address the core issues concerning human rights in justice system, with special reference to India. Explaining the idea of natural rights, it deals with the atrocities against scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, child abuse, and right to elementary education.
A detailed discussion on Vedic approach to human rights, cyber terrorism and cyber law, state financing in disaster relief, intellectual property and biodiversity, the complexity of religion, and interlocutory injunction regarding immovable property also finds place in the book.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jagat Pal
Professor Jagat Pal (b. 1949) is teaching presently as a Professors of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya. He did his graduation and post graduation from the University of Allahabad and Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, U.P. He started his teaching career from the Jaina Visva Bharati Deemed University, Ladnun, Rajasthan. He has taught several courses in the area of Moral Philosophy, Indian Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Analytic Philosophy, Symbolic Logic. Philosophy of Natural Sciences, Greek Philosophy and Modern Western Philosophy. He has guided several M.Phil and Ph.D. students. His papers have been published in several learned journals out of which two of them are published in international reputed journal. He has reviewed two books of I.C.P.R. which are published in the I.C.P.R. Journal. His is also co-editor of a book Introduction to Social and Political Philosophy which has been published by the North Eastern Hill University Publication Cell, Shillong in 2002. He has delivered several lectures on Moral Philosophy, Analytic Philosophy of Mind in different University as Resource Person and Visiting Fellow.
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