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Challenging Human Rights Violations: Using International Law in U.S. Courts
ISBN: 9789004480056
Platform/Publisher: BRILL / Brill | Nijhoff
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Anarchism;

This book guides civil rights lawyers-and informs judges, legislators, and academics-in the effective use of international law in U.S. federal and state cases.

The author highlights many concrete areas in which international law can enhance human rights protection both in the U.S. and abroad, such as:





Death penalty

Lethal force by police and military authorities

Extraterritorial privacy protection

Gay and lesbian rights

Government liability for foreseeable harm

Compensation for unintentional false imprisonment.

This eminently practical approach-based on model briefs developed for and used by leading U.S. civil rights lawyers and organizations-presents an extremely rare treatment of international human rights law.





Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.