Title: The twilight of human rights law
Description: Countries solemnly intone their commitment to human rights, and they ratify endless international treaties and conventions designed to signal that commitment. At the same time, there has been no marked decrease in human rights violations, even as the language of human rights has become the dominant mode of international moral criticism. Posner argues that purposefully unenforceable human rights treaties are at the heart of the world's failure to address human rights violations.
Subjects: Human rights, Civil rights, Menschenrecht, Ökonomische Theorie des Rechts, Droits de l'homme, Droits civils, Conventions internationales, Droit international, Organisations internationales, K3240 .p69 2014