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International Human Rights Law: An Unexpected Threat To Peace, Ingrid Wuerth
International Human Rights Law: An Unexpected Threat To Peace, Ingrid Wuerth
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
It is a great honor to deliver this lecture in honor of the late Dean Robert F. Boden. I am grateful to all of you for attending. My topic tonight is international law and peace among nations. It may seem a poor fit for a lecture honoring Dean Boden. I did not know him, but I have read that Dean Boden was passionately dedicated to teaching law students about the actual day-to-day practice of law. He believed that law schools should be focused on that sort of professional training—not on policy questions or preparing students to be “architects of society,” …
International Law In The Post-Human Rights Era, Ingrid Wuerth
International Law In The Post-Human Rights Era, Ingrid Wuerth
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
International law is in a period of transition. After World War II, but especially since the 1980s, human rights expanded to almost every corner of international law. In doing so, they changed core features of international law itself, including the definition of sovereignty and the sources of international legal rules. But what might be termed the golden-age of international human rights law is over, at least for now. Whether measured in terms of the increasing number of authoritarian governments, the decline in international human rights enforcement architecture such as the Responsibility to Protect and the Alien Tort Statute, the growing …