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The Promise of Human Rights - Jamie Mayerfeld

The Promise of Human Rights

Constitutional Government, Democratic Legitimacy, and International Law

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Buch | Hardcover
320 Seiten
2016
University of Pennsylvania Press (Verlag)
978-0-8122-4816-6 (ISBN)
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Jamie Mayerfeld defends international human rights law as an extension of domestic checks and balances and therefore necessary to constitutional government. The book combines theoretical reflections on democracy and constitutionalism with a case study of the contrasting human rights policies of Europe and the United States.
International human rights law is sometimes criticized as an infringement of constitutional democracy. Against this view, Jamie Mayerfeld argues that international human rights law provides a necessary extension of checks and balances and therefore completes the domestic constitutional order. In today's world, constitutional democracy is best understood as a cooperative project enlisting both domestic and international guardians to strengthen the protection of human rights. Reasons to support this view may be found in the political philosophy of James Madison, the principal architect of the U.S. Constitution.

The Promise of Human Rights presents sustained theoretical discussions of human rights, constitutionalism, democracy, and sovereignty, along with an extended case study of divergent transatlantic approaches to human rights. Mayerfeld shows that the embrace of international human rights law has inhibited human rights violations in Europe whereas its marginalization has facilitated human rights violations in the United States. A longstanding policy of "American exceptionalism" was a major contributing factor to the Bush administration's use of torture after 9/11.

Mounting a combination of theoretical and empirical arguments, Mayerfeld concludes that countries genuinely committed to constitutional democracy should incorporate international human rights law into their domestic legal system and accept international oversight of their human rights practices.

Jamie Mayerfeld is Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington.

Introduction

Chapter 1. Human Rights

Chapter 2. Madison's Compound Republic and the Logic of Checks and Balances

Chapter 3. Europe and the Virtues of International Constitutionalism

Chapter 4. American Exceptionalism and the Betrayal of Human Rights, Part I: The Torture Memos

Chapter 5. American Exceptionalism and the Betrayal of Human Rights, Part II: Enabling Torture

Chapter 6. The Democratic Legitimacy of International Human Rights Law

Conclusion

Notes

Index

Acknowledgments

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
Verlagsort Pennsylvania
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Öffentliches Recht Verfassungsrecht
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 0-8122-4816-3 / 0812248163
ISBN-13 978-0-8122-4816-6 / 9780812248166
Zustand Neuware
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