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Human Rights, Christine M. Chinkin

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The legalisation and judicialisation of international human rights have founded arguments that human rights constitutes a sub-discipline of international law, a ‘distinct jurisprudential phenomenon’, indeed a ‘special law’, central to the anxieties about the fragmentation of international law. The human rights world is a very different one from that envisaged by the VCLT: the latter is an empty, amoral world where States have reciprocal dealings only with other States, where there are no people hurt by States’ actions and demanding reparations, no international institutions creating special mechanisms peopled by experts for monitoring and reporting and no non-governmental organizations (NGOs) demanding …