Fiduciaries of humanity : how international law constitutes authority /
Over the past century, a new model of international law has developed under which a state's sovereign authority arises from the state's responsibility to respect, protect, and fulfill human rights for its people. In this book, Evan J. Criddle and Evan Fox-Decent argue that these developmen...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2016.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Over the past century, a new model of international law has developed under which a state's sovereign authority arises from the state's responsibility to respect, protect, and fulfill human rights for its people. In this book, Evan J. Criddle and Evan Fox-Decent argue that these developments mark a turning point in the international community's conception of public authority. Under international law today, states serve as fiduciaries of humanity, and their authority to govern and represent their people is dependent on their satisfaction of numerous duties, the most general of which is to estab. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 382 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199397938 0199397937 9780199397945 0199397945 0190623039 9780190623036 |