Audrey L Comstock

Committed to Rights: Volume 1

Un Human Rights Treaties and Legal Paths for Commitment and Compliance

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How states commit to UN human rights treaties, not only whether they do so, is crucial to improving human rights.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9781108830072
• ISBN-10: 1108830072
• Artikelnr.: 59641632

Autorenporträt

Audrey L. Comstock is an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on international law, human rights, and international organizations, including the punishment of peacekeepers accused of sexual exploitation and abuse of civilians.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. On ratification: rethinking a ratification-centered approach to international law
3. Legal paths for human rights treaty commitment and compliance
4. Signature: a first step in a two-step commitment process
5. Accession: late commitment and treaty negotiations
6. Succession: new states, old laws, and legitimacy
7. Conclusion.