Description:
The globalization of law has the potential to move the international human rights regime from the generation of norms to the fulfillment of rights, through direct enforcement, reshaping state policy, granting access to civil society, and global governance of transnational forces. In this volume, edited by Alison Brysk, an international and interdisciplinary team of scholars explores the development of new norms, mechanisms, and practices of international legal accountability for human rights abuse, and tests their power in a series of "hard cases."
Review Quotes:
"In the field of international human rights, the lure of law entices both lawyers and non-lawyers alike. Making rights legal promises precision, predictability and enforceability, in an area crying out for all three. And there are sound reasons to have faith in the law, for sometimes it delivers on these promises. At other times, however, it fails to deliver, or delivers inadequately. The essays in this timely volume spell out the positives and negatives for human rights of relying on the law, using live case studies from around the world, and in ways that are trenchant, practical and forward-looking."
--David Kinley, The University of Sydney
"This exciting new volume will be of interest to scholars of international relations and law. Taken together, the contributions from a range of interdisciplinary scholars offer cogent arguments for the importance of law and norms in global governance, tempered with a healthy recognition of their limitations."
--Chandra Lekha Sriram, University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies