Evading International Norms: Race and Rights in the Shadow of Legality

by Zoltán Búzás

How do states violate human rights norms after legalization? Why are these violations so persistent? What are the limits of legalization for protecting human rights norms? Conventional wisdom offers a variety of answers to these questions, but most often they conflate laws and norms and focus only on state actions that violate both. While this focus is undoubtedly valuable, it does not capture cases in which states violate human rights norms without...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812252691
• ISBN13: 9780812252699
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"