Adoption of the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights created a new international norm prohibiting racial discrimination. That anti-discrimination norm had been a part of the paper Constitution in the United States since adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment. However, it did not become a part of the living Constitution until the Fourteenth Amendment was subjected to the magnetic pull of international human rights law. Adoption of the Charter sparked a chain of events culminating in the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which heralded the end of apartheid in the United States. Many Americans think that modern anti-discrimination law was a U.S. invention that we exported to the rest of the world. In fact...
Scholars have written volumes about the dramatic constitutional changes that occurred in the United ...
Presents the history of the 1948 adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, focusing on ...
The United States has ratified international human rights treaties sparingly. Where it has ratified,...
There is an international human rights law aspect to Grutter v. Bollinger 1 and Gratz v. Bollinger 2...
Part of the "Symposium from Brown to Bakke to Grutter: Constitutionalizing and defining racial equal...
In Getting to Rights: Treaty Ratification, Constitutional Convergence, and Human Rights Practice, Za...
American law schools use appellate court decisions to teach the implementation and progression of th...
This Article examines the adoption of rights in national constitutions in the post-World War II peri...
American law schools use appellate court decisions to teach the implementation and progression of th...
The United Nations has added new complications to the well-worn subject of treaties and the Constitu...
The United States prides itself on being a champion of human rights and pressures other countries to...
This Article examines the adoption of rights in national constitutions in the post-World War II peri...
A fundamental principle of international law, articulated by the decisions of the Nuremberg Tribunal...
This Article discusses the relationship in U.S. law between State, Federal, and international author...
Human rights are among society’s most powerful ideals. The notion that all people have rights, simpl...
Scholars have written volumes about the dramatic constitutional changes that occurred in the United ...
Presents the history of the 1948 adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, focusing on ...
The United States has ratified international human rights treaties sparingly. Where it has ratified,...
There is an international human rights law aspect to Grutter v. Bollinger 1 and Gratz v. Bollinger 2...
Part of the "Symposium from Brown to Bakke to Grutter: Constitutionalizing and defining racial equal...
In Getting to Rights: Treaty Ratification, Constitutional Convergence, and Human Rights Practice, Za...
American law schools use appellate court decisions to teach the implementation and progression of th...
This Article examines the adoption of rights in national constitutions in the post-World War II peri...
American law schools use appellate court decisions to teach the implementation and progression of th...
The United Nations has added new complications to the well-worn subject of treaties and the Constitu...
The United States prides itself on being a champion of human rights and pressures other countries to...
This Article examines the adoption of rights in national constitutions in the post-World War II peri...
A fundamental principle of international law, articulated by the decisions of the Nuremberg Tribunal...
This Article discusses the relationship in U.S. law between State, Federal, and international author...
Human rights are among society’s most powerful ideals. The notion that all people have rights, simpl...
Scholars have written volumes about the dramatic constitutional changes that occurred in the United ...
Presents the history of the 1948 adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, focusing on ...
The United States has ratified international human rights treaties sparingly. Where it has ratified,...