Anmerkungen:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:
Introduction / Dinah Shelton -- Virginia Declaration of Rights, 1776 -- The rights of Man (excerpts) (1791-1792) / Thomas Paine -- Message of President James Monroe at the commencement of the first session of the 18th Congress (The Monroe doctrine), December 2, 1823 / James Monroe -- Address of the President of the United States (Four Freedoms Speech) (1941) / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- The new International law : protection of the Rights of individuals rather than States / Louis B. Sohn -- Genocide as a crime under International Law / Raphael Lemkin -- The age of RIghts (excerpts) / Louis Henkin -- Basic rights (excerpts) / Henry Shue -- Human Rights, Environmental Rights, and the right to environment / Dinah Shelton -- The emerging right to democratic governance / Thomas M. Franck -- Derogations from Human Rights treaties in public emergencies / Joan F. Hartman -- To respect and to ensure / Thomas Buergenthal -- Settling accounts : the duty to prosecute human rights violations of a prior regime / Dian F. Orentlicher -- Sovereignty and human rights in contemporary international law / W. Michael Reisman -- The charter and the constitution : the human rights provisions in American law / Oscar Schachter -- Human rights and US foreign policy : two levels, two worlds / David P. Forsythe -- U.S. Ratification of human rights conventions : the ghost of Senator Bricker / Louis Henkin -- Treaties, Human Rights, and conditional consent / Curtis A. Bradley and Jack L. Goldsmith -- Invoking International Human Rights Law in domestic courts / Richard B. Lillich -- Human rights in the United Nations / Myres S McDougal and Gerhard Bebr -- The International court of justice and the Human Rights clauses of the charter / Egon Schwelb -- Toward a theory of effective supranational adjudication / Laurence R. Helfer and Anne-Marie Slaughter