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Chapter Eleven - Performance, Power, and Transnational Legal Ordering

Addressing Sexual Violence as a Human Rights Concern

from Part IV - Transnational Legal Ordering and Human Rights Standards in Criminal Justice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2020

By
Ron Levi  and
Ioana Sendroiu
Edited by
Gregory Shaffer  and
Ely Aaronson
Gregory Shaffer
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine
Ely Aaronson
Affiliation:
University of Haifa, Israel
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This chapter connects analyses of transnational legal orders with research in field sociology and cultural sociological work on performance and power. Research on transnational legal orders opens up the opportunity to study processes of legal change that focus on status enhancement, networks, and peer review, in addition to more formal processes of legal regulation, enforcement, and compliance. We do so by focusing on human rights recommendations regarding rape and sexual violence, within the context of the UN’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR). The UPR process is uniquely suited to studying global norms, since the materials reviewed include national state reports, civil society reports, and a compiled report from international institutions – and within a peer review framework, states then respond by either accepting or merely noting the recommendations they receive. Through multiple correspondence analysis, we geometrically map out distinct groups of states involved in the process, and using a series of growth curve models, we show that recommendation acceptance is partially driven by particular types of states interacting within the UPR. In so doing, we develop connecting points between research on transnational legal orders, field sociology, and cultural sociology in order to better understand the performance of human rights.

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Transnational Legal Ordering of Criminal Justice , pp. 333 - 366
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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