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1. The (In)Effectiveness of Human Rights: Mapping Existing Research—An Introduction

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Abstract

The last decade has seen a surge of critiques regarding the entire human rights project, not only from outside the field but increasingly from within, on a variety of grounds. Long-standing critiques of the principle of universality on which the human rights regime is based have been supplemented with arguments about the continuing relevance of human rights in the context of a changing global order.

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Fußnoten
1
Hopgood 2015.
 
2
Hannum 2019. See also Hannum 2016, pp. 409–451.
 
3
Clément 2018, pp. 155–169.
 
4
Moyn 2018a. Indeed, in the conclusion of his analysis, Moyn goes so far as to state that that ‘even perfectly realised human rights are compatible with radical inequality’: 213. For a very condensed version of Moyn’s central argument, see Moyn 2018b. Per contra: De Búrca 2018, p. 1349.
 
5
See generally Dembour 2018, p. 41.
 
6
Hopgood et al. 2017, p. 4.
 
8
Brysk 2019, pp. 1–2, cited by Durmuş in Chap. 6.
 
9
Shany 2012, p. 230.
 
10
Shany 2012, p. 240.
 
11
De Búrca 2017, pp. 277–316.
 
12
Dai 2013, p. 86.
 
13
Digiacomo and Kang 2019.
 
14
Simmons and Martin 2002, p. 4.
 
15
Duffield 2007, p. 2.
 
16
See Hasenclever et al. 1997, p. 10.
 
17
See Anaya Muñoz 2017.
 
18
See Karlsson Schaffer et al. 2014, p. 1.
 
19
Engstrom 2010, p. 6.
 
20
Hopgood et al. 2017.
 
21
Hathaway 2002. Hafner-Burton and Tsutsui 2007.
 
22
Simmons 2009, p. 371, 378. These findings are replicated in compliance literature that focuses on the ‘compliance-pull’ of regional courts. See Hillebrecht 2012, pp. 293–297.
 
23
De Búrca 2017, p. 310.
 
24
Krommendijk 2015, 203. For the in-depth findings, see Krommendijk 2014.
 
25
Krommendijk 2015, p. 208.
 
26
For initial sources, see the various contributions in Charlesworth and Larking 2014; Cherif Bassiouni and Schabas 2011, and more recently on the Special Procedures, Alston et al. 2019.
 
27
See for example McGaughey 2017.
 
28
Dancy and Sikkink 2017.
 
29
Dancy and Sikkink 2017, p. 37.
 
30
Alston 2015. See also Oré Aguilar and Saiz 2020.
 
31
Jensen 2019.
 
32
For an excellent overview, see Byrnes and Renshaw 2013.
 
33
See Alston 2016.
 
34
For a recent example of international and domestic case studies conducted with the aim of identifying the most effective means of enhancing the status of UN treaty rights in the UK’s domestic framework, see Daly et al. 2018.
 
35
See Webb and Roberts 2014.
 
36
See generally Pegram and Goodman 2013.
 
37
Casla and Dalmeny 2019.
 
38
See Engle Merry 2006.
 
39
Smith and Cooper 2019.
 
40
See Deitelhoff and Wolf 2013. See also Clapham 2018.
 
41
Casla and Dalmeny 2019.
 
42
Empirical studies in the field are limited but growing, consisting mostly of some quantitative studies, backed up in recent years by a small number of qualitative studies of HRE in action in schools in particular jurisdictions.
 
43
For an argument regarding the importance of rights-based approaches in a post-Covid-19 world, see Packer and Balan 2020.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
The (In)Effectiveness of Human Rights: Mapping Existing Research—An Introduction
verfasst von
Suzanne Egan
Copyright-Jahr
2021
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-447-1_1

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