The twilight of human rights law /
Countries solemnly intone their commitment to human rights, and they ratify endless international treaties and conventions designed to signal that commitment. At the same time, there has been no marked decrease in human rights violations, even as the language of human rights has become the dominant...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2014].
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| Summary: | Countries solemnly intone their commitment to human rights, and they ratify endless international treaties and conventions designed to signal that commitment. At the same time, there has been no marked decrease in human rights violations, even as the language of human rights has become the dominant mode of international moral criticism. Posner argues that purposefully unenforceable human rights treaties are at the heart of the world's failure to address human rights violations. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 185 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-168) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199313440 (hardback : alk. paper) 019931344X (hardback : alk. paper) |