Jenny S Martinez

The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law

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Produktbeschreibung

Jenny Martinez shows in this groundbreaking volume that the international human rights movement has its roots in one of the nineteenth century's central moral causes: the movement to ban the international slave trade. Martinez focuses in particular on the international admiralty courts, which tried the crews of captured slave ships.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780199368990
• ISBN-10: 0199368996
• Artikelnr.: 40029158

Autorenporträt

Jenny S. Martinez is Professor of Law and Justin M. Roach, Jr., Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School. A leading expert on international courts and tribunals, international human rights, and the laws of war, she is also an experienced litigator who argued the 2004 case Rumsfeld v. Padilla before the U.S. Supreme Court. Martinez was named to the National Law Journal's list of "Top 40 Lawyers Under 40."

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1. International Law, Slavery and the Idea of International Human
Rights
* 2. British Abolitionism and Diplomacy, 1807-1817
* 3. The United States and the Slave Trade: 1776-1824
* 4. The Courts of Mixed Commission for the Abolition of the Slave
Trade
* 5. Am I Not a Man and a Brother?
* 6. Hostis Humanis Generis: Enemies of Mankind
* 7. The Final Abolition of the Slave Trade
* 8. A Bridge to the Future: Links Between the Abolition of the Slave
Trade and the Modern International Human Rights Movement
* 9. International Human Rights Law and International Courts:
Rethinking their Origins and Future