Hostname: page-component-76fb5796d-vfjqv Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-28T00:53:30.708Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Twilight of Human Rights Law. By Eric A. Posner. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. x, 185. Index. $21.95, £14.99.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Dinah Shelton
Dinah Shelton*
Affiliation:
Of the Board of Editors
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Recent Books on International Law
Information
American Journal of International Law , Volume 109 , Issue 1 , January 2015 , pp. 228 - 234
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2015

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 at https://freedomhouse.org.

2 Somerset v. Stewart, 98 Eng. Rep. 499 (1772).

3 Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe: Final Act, Aug. 1, 1975, 73 Dep’t St. Bull. 323 (1975), 14 ILM 1292 (1975).

4 E.g., Schlager, Erika B., A Hard Look at Compliance with ‘Soft’ Law: The Case of the OSCE, in Commitment and Compliance: The Role of Non-Binding Norms in the International Legal System 346 (Shelton, Dinah ed., 2000)Google Scholar; Buergenthal, Thomas, The CSCE Rights System, 25 Geo. Wash. J. Int’l L. & Econ. 333 (1991)Google Scholar.

5 See Greece v. United Kingdom, App. Nos. 176/56 & 299/57, [1958–1959] 2 Y. B. Eur. Conv. On H.R. 172; see also Benvenisti, Eyal, Margin of Appreciation, Consensus, and Universal Standards, 31 N.Y.U. J. Int’l L. & Pol. 843 (1999)Google Scholar.

6 See, e.g., Courtney Hillebrecht, Domestic Politics and International Human Rights Tribunals: The Problem of Compliance (2014); Sonia Cardenas, Conflict and Compliance: State Responses to International Human Rights Pressure (2007); Simmons, Beth A., Capacity, Commitment, and Compliance: International Institutions and Territorial Disputes, 46 J. Conflict Resol. 829 (2002)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

7 ECOSOC Res. 1503 (XLVIII), UN ESCOR, 48th Sess., Supp. No. IA, UN Doc. E/4832/Add. 1 (1970); see also Guide to International Human Rights Practice 61 (Hurst Hannum ed., 1984).

8 Chile, for example, changed its Constitution to comply with the judgment of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the Case of Olmedo-Bustos v. Chile (“Last Temptation of Christ”), Inter-Am. Ct. H.R. (ser. C) No. 73 (Feb. 5, 2001) (holding that Chile’s banning of films violated the prohibition of prior censorship contained in Article 13(2)of the American Convention on Human Rights, Nov. 22, 1969, 1144 UNTS 123).

9 Council of Europe, General Measures Adopted to Prevent New Violations of the European Convention on Human Rights: Stock-Taking of Measures Reported to the Committee of Ministers in Its Control of Execution of the Judgments and Decisions Under the Convention, Doc. H/Exec (2006)1 (May 2006).

10 Beth A. Simmons, Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic Politics (2009).