1st Edition

Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention Law and Practice in the Field

By Elizabeth Bruch Copyright 2016
204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

Human rights, peacekeeping, and humanitarian intervention have emerged in the past decades as important components of international law and practice. Adopting a methodology of Institutional Ethnography informed by Actor-Network Theory, this book traces the practices of law and expertise from global IGO headquarters to the ‘field’ and back again, and through various contemporary field missions... Read more

Introduction

1 Multi-dimensional law in humanitarian intervention: violence, bureaucracy, and governance

2 Power in writing: formal law, mandates, and reports in humanitarian intervention

3 Law in translation: human rights field officers as international experts

4 The rule of law in the field: standards, politics, and pragmatism

Conclusion

Appendix: Research and expertise in the field of humanitarian intervention

Biography

Elizabeth M. Bruch is an Assistant Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Tacoma. She previously taught at the University of British Columbia, and on the law faculty at American University’s Washington College of Law, Arizona State University College of Law, and Valparaiso University School of Law. She also worked as a human rights lawyer and served for two years as the Executive Officer of the Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina.