Post-Backlash Human Rights Law.

• Superior document: Theory and Practice of Public International Law
• Author: Dragić, Sanja.
• Place / Publishing House: Québec : : BRILL,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Theory and Practice of Public International Law
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (252 pages)

"What are the legal consequences of the political phenomenon of human rights backlash? After providing a novel definition of the phenomenon, Sanja Dragic explores some of the rules generated as a reaction to the backlash-"the post-backlash human rights law". Three case studies meticul...

Table of Contents

• Half Title
• Series Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: The Human Rights Backlash
• 1 What Is It?
• 2 Another Definition
• 2.1 The Norm Internalization Structure
• 2.2 Rejecting the Agents and Tools of Norm Internalization
• 2.3 Is Backlash Norm Contestation?
• 3 Insights from the Past
• 4 Overview of the Causes
• 5 Post-Backlash Human Rights Law
• Chapter 1 New Rules for Human Rights Treaties
• 1 Reservations
• 1.1 Backlash Reservation
• 1.2 vclt Is Not Enough: Need for the Additional Rules
• 1.3 Regional Human Rights Bodies Establish the Solutions
• 1.4 UN Bodies Confirm the New Practice?
• 2 Withdrawals
• 2.1 Denouncing Substantive Human Rights Treaties
• 2.2 Withdrawing from the Jurisdiction of Treaty Monitoring Bodies
• 3 The Picture
• Chapter 2 The Right to Foreign Funding for Civil Society
• 1 Narratives in the Background
• 1.1 State v Civil Society
• 1.2 Civil Society v State
• 2 Who's Who?
• 2.1 "Civil Society"
• 2.2 Foreign Funding
• 3 The (New) Norm
• 3.1 The (Unrestricted) Right to Foreign Funding for Civil Society
• 3.2 The Restricted Right to Foreign Funding for Political Parties
• 4 The Picture
• Chapter 3 Immunities for Senior State Officials
• 1 Situating the Post-Backlash Norms
• 2 Before the Backlash: Can You Hear Us?
• 2.1 Voices in the Universal Jurisdiction Debate
• 2.2 Voices before the icc
• 2.3 African Solution to African Problems
• 3 The Picture
• Chapter 4 Insights from a Battle of Narratives
• 1 Silencing the Voices
• 1.1 The Ways of Silencing
• 1.2 The Silent Arguments
• 1.2.1 Sovereignty and Non-interference in Internal Affairs
• 1.2.2 The Dignity of the State
• 1.2.3 Colonialism and Economic Development
• 2 Humanizing the Law
• 3 Recreating the Self
• 4 Outcome in the Context
• 5 The Picture of the Pictures.
• Conclusion: On Rights and Rules
• Bibliography
• Index.