International Law and Human Rights
Crime and Global Justice: The Dynamics of International Punishment, by Daniele Archibugi and Alice Pease
In this book, Archibugi and Pease survey familiar territory, but they distinguish their contribution by using case studies to tell their story, focusing on the indictments, trials, and convictions of well-known heads of state.
Wars of Law: Unintended Consequences in the Regulation of Armed Conflict
This book convincingly shows that efforts to regulate and govern the conduct of war have bred counteracting reactions by warring parties.
EIA Interview with Ronald Deibert on a Human-Centric Approach to Cybersecurity
Discussions around cybersecurity often focus on the security and sovereignty of states, not individuals, says Professor Ronald Deibert, director of University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab. If you start from a “human-centric perspective,” it could lead to policies focusing on peace, prosperity, and human rights. How can we work toward this approach?
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at Seventy: Progress and Challenges
In this essay, Ş. İlgü Özler examines global progress toward achieving the ideals enshrined in the UDHR, which was adopted seventy years ago in 1948.
How Not to Do Things with International Law
In this review essay, Anne Peters considers Ian Hurd’s recent book How to Do Things with International Law. Peters argues that, although the book is provocative and compelling, it may unwittingly reinforce the realist stance that international law is simply power politics in disguise.
Human Rights Under Attack: What Comes Next?
Micheline Ishay laments the recent onslaught against the human rights movement even from professed supporters, taking Samuel Moyn’s recent book Not Enough as indicative of the trend. Rather than piling on more critiques, Ishay writes, what we really need are strategies and solutions.
The Empire of International Legalism
In this essay, Ian Hurd uses the provocative term “empire” to show how the international legal system is also a political system based on the dominance of law over politics for governments around the world.
Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century, by Kathryn Sikkink
Kathryn Sikkink’s recent book introduces a set of new ideas and approaches for assessing human rights’ effectiveness that, like her past groundbreaking work, will likely be debated, developed, and critiqued for years to come.
