Saving the International Justice Regime - Beyond Backlash Against International Courts

This book provides a framework for understanding backlash against the international justice regime and how to save it.

List of contents

1. Progress and pushback in the judicialization of human rights; 2. Backlash in theoretical context; 3. The politics of withdrawal; 4. Replacing the international justice regime; 5. Bureaucrats, budgets and backlash: Death by a thousand paper cuts; 6. Doctrinal challenges: Diluting the domestic impacts of international adjudication; 7. How to save the international justice regime; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Courtney Hillebrecht is the Samuel Clark Waugh Distinguished Professor of International Relations and an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the author of Domestic Politics and International Human Rights Tribunals: The Problem of Compliance (Cambridge University Press, 2014).

Summary

This book is geared toward advanced students and scholars in law, human rights, international relations and political science seeking to better understand backlash against the international justice regime. It advances an interdisciplinary framework to explain what backlash is, how it manifests, why it occurs and what to do about it.

Product details

• Authors: Courtney Hillebrecht, Courtney (University of Nebraska Hillebrecht, Hillebrecht Courtney
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781316511411
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51141-1
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / International, LAW / Public, Public International Law