The past sixty years have seen an expansion of international human rights conventions and supervisory organs, not least in Europe. While these international legal instruments have enlarged their mandate, they have also faced opposition and criticism from political actors at the state level, even in well-functioning democracies. Against the backdrop of such contestations, this book brings together prominent scholars in law, political philosophy and international relations in order to address the legitimacy of international human rights regimes as a theoretically challenging and politically salient case of international authority. It provides a unique and thorough overview of the legitimacy problems involved in the global governance of human rights.

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Information

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Year

2013

ISBN

9781107454200

Topic

Politics & International Relations

Subtopic

Human Rights

Index

Politics & International Relations

Cover
The Legitimacy of International Human Rights Regimes
Title
Copyright
Contents
Contributors
Preface
1 International human rights and the challenge of legitimacy
2 The legitimate authority of international human rights
3 On the legitimate authority of international human rights bodies
4 Equality, human rights, and political legitimacy
5 The legitimacy of international interpretive authorities for human rights treaties: an indirect-instrumentalist defence
6 Torture and the politics of legitimation in international law
7 Legitimacy, institutional power, and international human rights institutions: a conceptual enquiry
8 Legitimacy, global governance and human rights institutions: inverting the puzzle
9 The democratic legitimacy of international human rights conventions: political constitutionalism and the Hirst case
10 Much ado about nothing? International judicial review of human rights in well-functioning democracies
Index