U.S. Supreme Court and the Domestic Force of International Human Rights Law (eBook)

Stephen A. Simon (Autor)

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2016
254 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-3471-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This book examines the debate over the domestic force of international human rights law through the U.S. Supreme Court’s jurisprudence. By approaching the topic from the justices’ vantage point, the analysis shows how multiple controversies are linked to the same overarching question and reveals a divide in the Court between two fundamentally different orientations toward the domestic impact of the international human rights regime.

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The core idea underlying human rights is that everyone is inherently and equally worthy of respect as a person. The emergence of that idea has been one of the most significant international developments since the Second World War. But it is one thing to embrace something as an aspirational ideal and quite another to recognize it as enforceable law. The continued development of the international human rights regime brings a pressing question to the fore: What role should international human rights have as law within the American legal system?The U.S. Supreme Court and the Domestic Force of International Human Rights Law examines this question through the prism of the U.S. Supreme Court's handling of controversies bearing most closely on it. It shows that the specific disputes the Court has addressed can be best understood by recognizing how each interconnects with an overarching debate over the proper role to be accorded international human rights law within American institutions. By approaching the subject from the justices' standpoint, this book reveals a divide in the Court between two fundamentally different orientations toward the domestic impact of the international human rights regime.

Autor

Stephen A. Simon is associate professor of political science and coordinator of the Program in Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law (PPEL) at the University of Richmond.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Customary International Law and the Alien Tort StatuteChapter 3: The Domestic Force of Treaties Chapter 4: Limits in the Fight against TerrorismChapter 5: Foreign Law in Constitutional InterpretationChapter Six: Common Themes: Internationalists and SovereigntistsBibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.7.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Domestic Law • Human Rights • International Human Rights • International human rights law • Jurisprudence • law and courts • legal implementation • Legal Studies • legal theory • Sovereignty • Supreme Court
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-3471-6 / 1498534716
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-3471-0 / 9781498534710