World Justice?

U.S. Courts And International Human Rights

Mark Gibney

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9780367216764
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000010985
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

What role can US domestic courts play in the worldwide enforcement of human rights? When international courts deny hearings to individual plaintiffs who cannot obtain the sponsorship of their own government (which may well be the defendant), these plaintiffs are finding US courts increasingly willing to hear their cases. This volume considers the implications of this de facto extension of the jurisdiction of US courts, the problem of enforcing the decisions of the courts, the relationship between human rights law and foreign policy and the emerging consensus on the primacy of human rights over the sovereign rights of states.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents Page
• Introduction
• 1 Human Rights and Universal Jurisdiction
• 2 Human Rights Litigation and the "One-Voice" Orthodoxy in Foreign Affairs
• 3 Enforcement of Human Rights in U.S. Courts: The Trial of Persons Kidnapped Abroad
• 4 Courts as "Teachers in a Vital National Seminar" on Human Rights
• 5 International Human Rights Law and U.S. Law
• 6 Interest Group Litigation to Enforce Human Rights: Confronting Judicial Restraint
• 7 Toward the Economic Brown: Economic Rights in the United States and the Possible Contribution of International Human Rights Law
• 8 The Relation of the Individual to the State in the Era of Human Rights
• About the Book and Editor
• About the Contributors