The United States prides itself on being a champion of human rights and pressures other countries to improve their human rights practices, and yet appears less willing than other nations to embrace international human rights treaties. Many commentators attribute this phenomenon to the particular historical context that existed in the late 1940s and early 1950s when human rights treaties were first being developed. These commentators especially emphasize the race relations of the time, noting that some conservatives resisted the developing human rights regime because they saw it as an effort by the federal government to extend its authority to address racial segregation and discrimination in the South. As this essay explains, the guarded and...
Like the men of fable who observed the elephant differently from different vantage points, scholars ...
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Human Rights Institute (HRI) at Columbi...
This Article examines the adoption of rights in national constitutions in the post-World War II peri...
The United States prides itself on being a champion of human rights and pressures other countries to...
The author, who was the U.S. Ambassador to the human rights conference, discusses the American tradi...
The United States has been reluctant to agree to binding international human rights instruments ever...
It is sadly academic to ask whether international human rights law should trump US domestic law. Tha...
Historically, the implementation of US human rights policy has been a case of two steps forward, on...
Historically, the implementation of US human rights policy has been a case of two steps forward, on...
The United Nations has added new complications to the well-worn subject of treaties and the Constitu...
During the early 1960s, government officials in the U.S. Department of State grappled with the follo...
As the United States moves toward the inauguration in January 2009 of a new President, greater att...
Published as Chapter 8 in The Sword and the Scales: The United States and International Courts and T...
Article II of the Constitution grants the President the Power, by and with the Advice and Consent o...
Human rights have suffered sharp setbacks in the four years since the paper that follows was deliver...
Like the men of fable who observed the elephant differently from different vantage points, scholars ...
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Human Rights Institute (HRI) at Columbi...
This Article examines the adoption of rights in national constitutions in the post-World War II peri...
The United States prides itself on being a champion of human rights and pressures other countries to...
The author, who was the U.S. Ambassador to the human rights conference, discusses the American tradi...
The United States has been reluctant to agree to binding international human rights instruments ever...
It is sadly academic to ask whether international human rights law should trump US domestic law. Tha...
Historically, the implementation of US human rights policy has been a case of two steps forward, on...
Historically, the implementation of US human rights policy has been a case of two steps forward, on...
The United Nations has added new complications to the well-worn subject of treaties and the Constitu...
During the early 1960s, government officials in the U.S. Department of State grappled with the follo...
As the United States moves toward the inauguration in January 2009 of a new President, greater att...
Published as Chapter 8 in The Sword and the Scales: The United States and International Courts and T...
Article II of the Constitution grants the President the Power, by and with the Advice and Consent o...
Human rights have suffered sharp setbacks in the four years since the paper that follows was deliver...
Like the men of fable who observed the elephant differently from different vantage points, scholars ...
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Human Rights Institute (HRI) at Columbi...
This Article examines the adoption of rights in national constitutions in the post-World War II peri...