Globalizing Human Rights - Emerging Issues and Approaches

This collection presents a comprehensive engagement of issues of human rights in an increasingly globalized world. Using a variety of methodologies to engage issues ranging from national court compliance, norm diffusion, and the role of the judiciary in fulfilling human rights to human trafficking, same-sex marriage, and judicial institution bui

List of contents

1. Introduction: Globalizing Human Rights 2. The Globalization of Law: Implications for the Fulfillment of Human Rights 3. Treaties, Constitutions, Courts, and Human Rights 4. Explaining Support for Human Rights Protections: A Judicial Role? 5. Human Trafficking and International Cheap Talk: The Dutch Government and the Island Territories 6. Judicialization of Politics in Europe: Keeping Pace with Strasbourg 7. Ideological Voting on Chile’s Constitutional Tribunal: Dissent Coalitions in the Adjudication of Rights 8. The Construction and Enactment of Same-Sex Marriage in Argentina 9. Judicial Institution Builders: NGOs and International Human Rights Courts

About the author

Charles Anthony Smith is a professor at UC-Irvine. He is the author of The Rise and Fall of War Crimes Trials: from Charles I to Bush II (Cambridge University Press 2012) and has published articles in LSR, Journal of Human Rights, Human Rights Review, the IPSR, JIRD, Judicature among others.

Summary

This collection presents a comprehensive engagement of issues of human rights in an increasingly globalized world. Using a variety of methodologies to engage issues ranging from national court compliance, norm diffusion, and the role of the judiciary in fulfilling human rights to human trafficking, same-sex marriage, and judicial institution bui

Product details

• Assisted by: Charles Anthony Smith (Editor), Smith Charles Anthony (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032929491
• ISBN: 978-1-032-92949-1
• No. of pages: 164
• Weight: 300 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Human Rights, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, Human rights & civil liberties law, LAW / International, LAW / Public, LAW / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Political Economy, Social Law, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Social law and Medical law