Human rights advocacy in the United States
By: by Martha F. Davis, Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law; Johanna Kalb, Associate Professor of Law, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law; Risa E. Kaufman, Executive Director, Human Rights Institute, Lecturer-in-Law, Columbia Law School
Contributors: Kalb, Johanna, author; Kaufman, Risa E., author
Series: American casebook series; American casebook series
Publisher: West Academic Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: St. Paul, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 938
ISBN-13: 9780314286567; 9780314286550
Subjects: Human rights; Cases
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages ix-xxiii) and index.
Table of contents: title: A framework for U.S. human rights advocacy; title: The place of "human rights" in the United States; title: The United States and the U.N. human rights treaties; title: Customary international law in U.S. courts; title: Using foreign and international law as persuasive authority; title: State and local implementation; title: The interdependence of rights : advancing economic, social and cultural rights alongside civil and political rights in the U.S.; title: Engaging international and regional mechanisms for domestic advocacy; title: Human rights fact-finding and reporting; title: Mobilizing communities; title: Ethics and domestic human rights lawyering; title: Appendix A. Select human rights instruments of the United Nations; title: Appendix B. Select instruments of the Inter-American human rights system.