Transnational Human Rights Litigation: Challenging the Death Penalty and Criminalization of Homosexuality in the Commonwealth

by Andrew Novak

Book Overview

Analyzes the role of strategic human rights litigation in the dissemination and migration of transnational constitutional norms Provides a detailed analysis of how transnational human rights advocates have used international and foreign law to promote abolition of the death penalty, restriction of life imprisonment, and decriminalization of homosexuality Confirms the mutually reinforcing relationship between domestic and international law, including the role of legal advocates as the instrumental drivers of this process

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030285456
• ISBN13: 9783030285456
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"