Global minority rights edited by Joshua Castellino.

Part I. Historical background : international law moves from protection of particular groups to norms of an universal character / Patrick Thornberry -- Minorities and the League of Nations in interwar Europe / Mark Mazower -- The internationalization of minority rights / Will Kymlicka -- Part II. Conceptual development of minority rights law -- The bases of minority identity / Philip Vuciri Ramaga -- To bellow like a cow : women, ethnicity and the discourse of rights / Radhika Coomaraswamy -- The idea of human rights as perceived in the Ottoman Empire / Berdal Aral -- Part III. Comtemporary challenges of minority rights law -- The headscarf affair : the Conseil d`État on the role of religion and culture in French society / Elisa T. Beller -- Tiptoeing through a constitutional minefield : the great Sharia controversy in Nigeria / Andrew Ubaka Iwobi -- The new economic policy and interethnic relations in Malaysia / Jomo K.S.