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World Justice?: U.S. Courts and International Human Rights

By Mark Gibney

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1991
ISBN
9780367213954, 081331013X, 9780367216764, 9780429268038
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
448 kB (458839 bytes)
Pages
192\0
Topic
Jurisprudence Law
Time added
2022-08-01 14:35:53

Description

What role can US domestic courts play in the worldwide enforcement of human rights? When international courts deny hearings to individual plaintiffs who cannot obtain the sponsorship of their own government (which may well be the defendant), these plaintiffs are finding US courts increasingly willing to hear their cases. This volume considers the implications of this de facto extension of the jurisdiction of US courts, the problem of enforcing the decisions of the courts, the relationship between human rights law and foreign policy and the emerging consensus on the primacy of human rights over the sovereign rights of states.

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