Add to ORKGIt is entirely unclear whether human rights conventions achieve any greater level of respect and compliance than the underlying norms on which the conventions are grounded. It is unclear, in other words, whether anything is gained by taking a moral norm and embedding it in a legal instrument. This Article concludes with speculation about why rights activists struggle to obtain legal recognition for moral norms— whether pledges, in other words, give added value. Answering this question will require considerable additional empirical research and analysis
In light of a recent shift in dialogue to hard law standards in the domain of business and human rig...
In this article it is contended that state practice, as evidenced in the declarations of the judicia...
Previous research suggests that most treaties are ineffective in ensuring countries' compliance with...
It is entirely unclear whether human rights conventions achieve any greater level of respect and com...
The continuous transfer of authority from the national sphere to inter-governmental organizations gi...
International lawyers for the most part assume that, as Louis Henkin memorably put it, almost all n...
After the non-binding Universal Declaration of Human Rights, many global and regional human rights t...
Social human rights are not held to belong to the category of jus cogens norms. At the same time the...
This article will analyse whether or not Human Rights treaties merit a departure from the provisions...
The paper presents a theory of the moral structure of international human rights. It proceeds by dra...
It is sadly academic to ask whether international human rights law should trump US domestic law. Tha...
The ratification of international human rights treaties is critical to the worldwide observance of h...
Over the last half-century, the number of treaties that address issues of human rights has grown fro...
The internationalization of the human rights standards and the creation of the basic human rights c...
The media can be accessed here: http://streaming.osu.edu/knowledgebank/mershon11/042811.mp4Dai discu...
In light of a recent shift in dialogue to hard law standards in the domain of business and human rig...
In this article it is contended that state practice, as evidenced in the declarations of the judicia...
Previous research suggests that most treaties are ineffective in ensuring countries' compliance with...
It is entirely unclear whether human rights conventions achieve any greater level of respect and com...
The continuous transfer of authority from the national sphere to inter-governmental organizations gi...
International lawyers for the most part assume that, as Louis Henkin memorably put it, almost all n...
After the non-binding Universal Declaration of Human Rights, many global and regional human rights t...
Social human rights are not held to belong to the category of jus cogens norms. At the same time the...
This article will analyse whether or not Human Rights treaties merit a departure from the provisions...
The paper presents a theory of the moral structure of international human rights. It proceeds by dra...
It is sadly academic to ask whether international human rights law should trump US domestic law. Tha...
The ratification of international human rights treaties is critical to the worldwide observance of h...
Over the last half-century, the number of treaties that address issues of human rights has grown fro...
The internationalization of the human rights standards and the creation of the basic human rights c...
The media can be accessed here: http://streaming.osu.edu/knowledgebank/mershon11/042811.mp4Dai discu...
In light of a recent shift in dialogue to hard law standards in the domain of business and human rig...
In this article it is contended that state practice, as evidenced in the declarations of the judicia...
Previous research suggests that most treaties are ineffective in ensuring countries' compliance with...