Jamie Mayerfeld

The Promise of Human Rights

Constitutional Government, Democratic Legitimacy, and International Law

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Mayerfeld defends international human rights law as an extension of domestic checks and balances and therefore necessary to constitutional government. The author combines theoretical reflections on democracy and constitutionalism with a case study of the contrasting human rights policies of Europe and the U.S.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9780812224580
• ISBN-10: 0812224582
• Artikelnr.: 56394795

Autorenporträt

Jamie Mayerfeld is Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. Human Rights
Chapter 2. Madison's Compound Republic and the Logic of Checks and Balances
Chapter 3. Europe and the Virtues of International Constitutionalism
Chapter 4. American Exceptionalism and the Betrayal of Human Rights, Part
I: The Torture Memos
Chapter 5. American Exceptionalism and the Betrayal of Human Rights, Part
II: Enabling Torture
Chapter 6. The Democratic Legitimacy of International Human Rights Law
Conclusion
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments