Contents: Foreword, Robin Palmer; Introduction, Kyriaki Topidi and Lauren Fielder; Part I The Construction and Evolution of Human Rights Norms in Transnational Legal Settings: Universal human rights and cultural relativity: conflict or reconciliation?, Ehsanul Haque; The impact of, and resistance to, the use of foreign law on juvenile punishment in the United States, Ruth Hargrove and Roberta Thyfault; Horizontal impact of human rights - dialogue between constitutional and international law, Barbara Grabowska; The subsidiary application of the European Convention on Human Rights by constitutional courts in the Czech Republic and Poland, Marian Kokes and Piotr Mikuli; Legislative attempts to prohibit the use of international law and Islamic law in US courts, Mark E. Wojcik. Part II The Protection of Cultural Difference within Human Rights Traditions: Preserving traditions or breaking the mold? Transnational human rights processes in the People's Republic of China and Hong Kong, Carole J. Petersen; Combating religious defamation: an exploration of blasphemy in Islamic thought and international practice, Ali M. Abid; African courts and African values: harmonizing international human rights and customary law, Lauren Fielder; Exercising religious rights in European classrooms: value conflicts between the national, the supranational and the transnational, Kyriaki Topidi. Part III Transnational Economic Entities, Human Rights and Cultural Identity: Narrating indigenous rights, indigenous rights professionals and agreements between mining corporations and indigenous communities: à qui l¿homme sauvage?, Deval Desai; Corporate responsibility and human rights in the context of an international constitutional legal framework: the case of Angola, Angelica Anatolie Tsakiridis; Index.