Peremptory International Legal Norms and the Democratic Rule of Law (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Grover, Sonja

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the risks to the democratic State inherent in the attempt to divorce the notion of democratic rule of law from respect for and adherence to peremptory international legal norms which allow for no derogation therefrom such as the prohibition of torture and inhumane treatment or punishment by the State.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 126
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000731316
• Artikelnr.: 59486764

Autorenporträt

Sonja Grover is a Professor with Lakehead University and an Associate Editor of The International Journal of Human Rights who has published extensively in the field of international law including a previous edited volume with Routledge titled The Responsibility to Protect: Perspectives on the Concept's Meaning, Proper Application and Value.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. International order, the rule of law, and US departures
from refugee protection 2. The harbinger theory of terrorism and the rule
of law: the danger of 'balancing' non-derogable rights against security
when relying on threat assessments produced by self-interested intelligence
agencies 3. Citizenship by descent: how Canada's one-generation rule fails
to comply with international legal norms 4. Securitisation, non-refoulement
and the rule of law in Kenya: the case of Somali refugees 5. The widespread
use of torture in Mexico and its impacts on the rule of law 6. EU
membership conditionality in promoting acceptance of peremptory human
rights norms: a case study in Albania considering public opinion Erratum