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Torture And Other Forms Of Cruel And Unusual Punishment In International Law, Steven Ackerman
Torture And Other Forms Of Cruel And Unusual Punishment In International Law, Steven Ackerman
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Although historically legal interest in human rights has been the special province of scholars, recent worldwide economic realignment has educated the public to global interdependency, vindicating those who foresaw a nexus between human rights and the maintenance of world order. "[A]n interdependent global community cannot sustain itself. .if the coin of common exchange is genocide and discrimination." A pragmatic understanding of the relationship between the maintenance of world order and the protection of human rights suggests that tolerance and fulfillment of the world expectation of human rights may not be a goal that can be universally achieved. It is, however, …