The Law and Politics of International Human Rights Courts, 9780198925507
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Human rights courts battle politics to deliver transnational justice.

The Law and Politics of International Human Rights Courts

the dilemma of effectiveness

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    304 pages

  • Release Date

    20 November 2024

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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
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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