1st Edition
The Politics of the Globalization of Law Getting from Rights to Justice
1. The Politics of the Globalization of Law; Alison Brysk and Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi Part I: The Globalization of Law And Human Rights 2. Treaties, Constitutions, and Courts: The Critical Combination; Wayne Sandholtz 3. The International Criminal Court: Globalizing peace or justice?; Tony Smith and Antonio Gonzalez 4. Global diffusion and the role of courts in shaping the human right to vote; Ludvig Beckman 5. From Pirates to Pinochet: universal jurisdiction for torture; Mark Berlin 6. Courts, advocacy groups, and human rights in Europe; Rachel Cichowski Part II: Hard cases: from rights to justice? 7. The Power and Limits of International Law: Challenging the Bush Administration’s Extra-Legal Detention System; Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi 8. States of emergency vs. courts in Latin America; Claire Wright 9. Law, rights, and barriers in the Israel-Palestine conflict; Gershon Shafir 10. Non-state actors as violators in Mexico: A hard case for global human rights; Alejandro Anaya 11. Extraordinary laws and torture in India in an era of globalization; Jinee Lookaneeta
Biography
Alison Brysk holds the Mellichamp Chair in Global Governance at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author or editor of eight previous books on human rights, including Globalization and Human Rights, Human Rights and Private Wrongs, People Out of Place, and From Human Trafficking to Human Rights. She has held visiting posts in Argentina, Canada, Ecuador, France, India, Spain, and Sweden, among others.
