International Human Rights Law

Returning to Universal Principles

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Mark Gibney

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This clear and compelling text confronts the dominant thinking on human rights, taking issue with the notion adopted by all states and even many academics that human rights obligations extend no further than their own territorial borders. Mark Gibney critiques cases from the U.S. Supreme Court, the International Court of Justice, and the European Court of Human Rights, arguing for a much broader reading of state responsibility on the basis that current law misses most of the ways in which states fail to protect human rights standards. Finally, Gibney takes up the issue of human rights enforcement, unquestionably the weakest aspect of international human rights law. He proposes several practical models that could begin to provide victims the “effective remedy” promised by the law itself. The book concludes that there is a moral and legal imperative to return to the universal principles human rights were founded on. And rather than witnessing the end of human rights—as some have suggested—we should see our times as the true beginning.

Author Biography:

Mark Gibney is Belk Distinguished Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Asheville and Raoul Wallenberg Visiting Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Lund University.

Release date Australia

August 13th, 2015

Author

Mark Gibney

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Edition

Second Edition

Pages

174

Dimensions

161x236x17

ISBN-13

9781442249097

Product ID

23130311

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