Promise of Human Rights - Constitutional Government, Democratic Legitimacy, International Law

Informationen zum Autor Jamie Mayerfeld is Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington. Klappentext Mayerfeld defends international human rights law as an extension of domestic checks and balances and therefore necessary to constitutional government. The author combines theoretical reflections on democracy and constitutionalism with a case study of the contrasting human rights policies of Europe and the U.S. Zusammenfassung Jamie Mayerfeld defends international human rights law as an extension of domestic checks and balances and therefore necessary to constitutional government. The book combines theoretical reflections on democracy and constitutionalism with a case study of the contrasting human rights policies of Europe and the United States. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chapter 1. Human Rights Chapter 2. Madison's Compound Republic and the Logic of Checks and Balances Chapter 3. Europe and the Virtues of International Constitutionalism Chapter 4. American Exceptionalism and the Betrayal of Human Rights, Part I: The Torture Memos Chapter 5. American Exceptionalism and the Betrayal of Human Rights, Part II: Enabling Torture Chapter 6. The Democratic Legitimacy of International Human Rights Law Conclusion Notes Index Acknowledgments

Product details

• Authors: Jamie Mayerfeld
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9780812224580
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2458-0
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human; Pennsylvania Studies in Human; Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law