* Professor of Law and Director, Human Rights Center, State University of New York at
Buffalo School of Law. SJD, Harvard Law School, 1987; LL. M., Harvard Law School, 1985; …

In 1948 the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and with it a
profusion of norms, processes, and institutions to define, promote, and protect human rights …

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the use of peace agreements from a legal
perspective. It describes and evaluates the development of contemporary peace processes …

This book examines the gradual emancipation of the individual in national and international
law and the changing social attitudes towards personal choice in constituting identity. It …

International Law and Human Rights seeks to bring to the reader high-quality research in
international law with particular emphasis on the theoretical and historical aspects of the …

I would like to thank the University of Utah School of Law along with my good friends Karen
Engle and Lee Teitelbaum for the invitation to participate in this conference reconsidering …

[In the last few years, a new politics of difference is emerging whose dis-tinctive features are]
to trash the monolithic and homogeneous in the name of diversity, multiplicity and …

This monograph analyzes the role of civil society in the massive political mobilization and
upheavals of 2006 in Nepal that swept away King Gyanendra's direct rule and dramatically …

I. INTRODUCTION: WHAT Is" BLACKCRIT THEORY: HumA,, N RIGHTS"? A the United
Nations World Conference Against Racism approaches, u Bois' observation on the global …

I want to suggest, at the outset, that we must approach all claims of universality with caution
and trepidation. There can be little doubt that visions of universality and predestination have …