More than half a century after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights defined what a
human being is and is entitled to, Catharine MacKinnon asks: Are women human yet? If …

This is a study of the principal negotiating processes and law-making tools through which
contemporary international law is made. It does not seek to give an account of the traditional …

This book examines laws and customs of war prohibiting rape crimes dating back thousands
of years, even though gender-specific crimes, particularly sex crimes, have been prevalent …

International politics has become increasingly legalized over the past fifty years,
restructuring the way states interact with each other, international institutions, and their own …

The one thing that has stood out to me while studying CEDAW is the incredible effort
activists have made to use the Convention and turn it into an instrument of social …

This ethnographic analysis of one of the core human rights conventions suggests that
despite the lack of enforceability of this convention and its operation within the framework of …

This volume is the first comprehensive commentary on the Convention on the Elimination of
All Forms of Discrimination against Women and its Optional Protocol. The Convention is a …

The dramatic rise in the number of international courts and tribunals and the expansion of
their legal powers has been one of the most significant developments in international law of …

Individuals have now acquired the power to shape international human rights law. No longer
found merely in aspirational or ambiguous treaties with limited practical impact on the lives …

Third-party standing is relevant to a wide range of constitutional and statutory cases. The
Supreme Court has said that, to assert such standing, a litigant must ordinarily have a close …