Winter 2016 (30.4) • Essay
Ending Statelessness Through Belonging: A Transformative Agenda?
The subject of belonging conjures up a realm of emotions. This essay explores statelessness through the prism of belonging, asking whether the United Nations Refugee ...
Winter 2016 (30.4) • Feature
Trials as Messages of Justice: What Should Be Expected of International Criminal Courts?
After more than a decade of work, the accomplishments of the International Criminal Court are highly contested. In this article, the authors ask, what can ...
Winter 2016 (30.4) • Essay
Introduction
The last few decades have seen a lively philosophical debate surrounding human rights. Allen Buchanan’s book The Heart of Human Rights constitutes an important ...
Winter 2016 (30.4) • Essay
Human Rights and Status Egalitarianism
In this essay, Miller throws doubt on Allen Buchanan's claim that to understand the system of international legal human rights, we must acknowledge not only ...
Winter 2016 (30.4) • Essay
Justifying International Legal Human Rights
In this essay, Tomalty argues that Buchanan's alternative account of the justification of ILHRs is problematic. Rejecting the "Mirroring View" does not entail the irrelevance ...
Winter 2016 (30.4) • Essay
Human Rights: A Plea for Taking the Law and Institutions Seriously
Buchanan responds to some of the points made by each of the contributors to the symposium, making his case for taking international laws and institutions ...
Winter 2016 (30.4) • Essay
On Constitutional Democracy and Robust International Law
This essay focuses on the tension between robust international law (RIL) and democratic constitutions. The author argues that Buchanan is broadly correct about the nature ...
Winter 2016 (30.4) • Essay
Are Moral Rights Necessary for the Justification of International Legal Human Rights?
Andrea Sangiovanni argues that the existence of an underlying moral right is a necessary part of any successful justification of an International Legal Human Right (...
Winter 2016 (30.4) • Essay
The Fragility of International Human Rights Law
In this essay, Zucca argues that some philosophers’ optimism about international human rights legal practice is misguided. He argues that human rights law is not ...
Winter 2016 (30.4) • Review Essay
The Lessons of Effective Altruism
In this essay, Rubenstein examines two recent books by Peter Singer and William MacAskill on the philosophy and philanthropic movement known as Effective Altruism (EA). ...