
The Law and Politics of International Human Rights Courts
the dilemma of effectiveness
$134.62
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
20 November 2024
Summary
Justice Beyond Borders: Navigating Law and Politics in International Human Rights Courts
Combining perspectives from law and the social sciences, this book provides an account of the origins and evolution of six regional human rights courts. In each of these cases, judges sought to overcome political forces and legal obstacles that threatened to render the regime stillborn. Alec Stone Sweet and Wayne Sandholtz focus on the struggle to raise standards of rights protection within mult…
Book Details
ISBN-13: | 9780198925507 |
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ISBN-10: | 0198925506 |
Author: | Alec Stone Sweet, Wayne Sandholtz |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
Format: | Paperback |
Number of Pages: | 304 |
Release Date: | 20 November 2024 |
Weight: | 470g |
Dimensions: | 235mm x 156mm x 16mm |
About The Author
Alec Stone Sweet
Alec Stone Sweet is Sir Y. K. Pao Chair at the University of Hong Kong, and has previously held chaired professorships at the National University of Singapore, Yale University, and Nuffield College, Oxford. He works in the fields of comparative and international law, and comparative and international politics, with a focus on dispute resolution, law, and courts.
Wayne Sandholtz holds the John A. McCone Chair and is Professor of International Relations and Law at the University of Southern California. His research addresses human rights treaties and courts, international norms, authoritarianism, and the rule of law.
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