Human Rights, now in its fourth edition, is an introductory text that is both innovative and
challenging. Its unique interdisciplinary approach invites students to think imaginatively and …

The international community often seeks to promote political reforms in recalcitrant states.
Recently, some scholars have argued that, rather than helping, international law and …

How do states violate human rights norms after legalization? Why are these violations so
persistent? What are the limits of legalization for protecting human rights norms …

The current moment in history is marked by a sense of anxiety about the future of human
rights as a global project. In many instances, human rights pessimism has eclipsed a larger …

The literature on legalization was developed in response to the apparent expanding role of
law making, enforcement, and especially adjudication in international politics, in a …

The international human rights system faces criticisms regarding a range of issues, including
ambiguity in its standards, weakness in its enforcement mechanisms and the resultant lack …

A significant part of recent scholarship on human rights has focused on the relation between
the international human rights practice1 and socioeconomic inequality. On what we might …

Human rights are viewed, by the West and especially the Nordic countries, as something
that has already been achieved. Thus, little research focuses on explaining differing levels of …

O objetivo deste artigo é o de analisar a atuação da organização não governamental (ONG)
mexicana Centro de Direitos Humanos das Mulheres (CEDEHM) no caso Alvarado contra o …

A 'practical'theory of human rights should make sense of two claims: a 'practice claim'–that
international human rights can fruitfully be regarded as an existing social practice–and an …