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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
