The Promise of Human Rights : : Constitutional Government, Democratic Legitimacy, and International Law / / Jamie Mayerfeld.
International human rights law is often criticized as an infringement of constitutional democracy. In The Promise of Human Rights, Jamie Mayerfeld argues to the contrary that international human rights law provides a necessary extension of checks and balances and therefore completes the domestic con...
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Human Rights
- Chapter 2. Madison's Compound Republic and the Logic of Checks and Balances
- Chapter 3. Europe and the Virtues of International Constitutionalism
- Chapter 4. American Exceptionalism and the Betrayal of Human Rights, Part I: The Torture Memos
- Chapter 5. American Exceptionalism and the Betrayal of Human Rights, Part II: Enabling Torture
- Chapter 6. The Democratic Legitimacy of International Human Rights Law
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments