Introduction: human rights legalized -- defining, interpreting, and implementing an ideal = 1
Basak Cali and Saladin Meckled-Garcia
PART I The limits of law = 9
Lost in translation: the human rights ideal and international human rights law = 11
Saladin Meckled-Garcia and Basak Cali
The law cannot be enough: human rights and the limits of legalism = 32
Anthony Woodiwiss
Putting law in its place: an interdisciplinary evaluation of national amnesty laws = 49
Michael Freeman
PART II Law and its virtues = 65
The virtues of legalization = 67
Jack Donnelly
Is the legalization of human rights really the problem? Genocide in the Guatemalan Historical Clarification
Commission = 81
Richard Ashby Wilson
PART III Human rights law in action = 99
Revisioning the role of law in women's human rights struggles = 101
Ratna Kapur
The bureaucratic gaze of international human rights law = 117
David Chandler
Verdictive discourses, shame and judicialization in pursuit of freedom of association rights = 134
Edward Weisband
PART IV Interpretation and legal authority = 163
From the theory of discovery to the theory of recognition of indigenous rights: conventional international law
in search of homeopathy = 165
Natalia Alvarez Molinero
Politics of reading human rights: inclusion and exclusion within the production of human rights = 182
Upendra Baxi
Index 201
Basak Cali and Saladin Meckled-Garcia
PART I The limits of law = 9
Lost in translation: the human rights ideal and international human rights law = 11
Saladin Meckled-Garcia and Basak Cali
The law cannot be enough: human rights and the limits of legalism = 32
Anthony Woodiwiss
Putting law in its place: an interdisciplinary evaluation of national amnesty laws = 49
Michael Freeman
PART II Law and its virtues = 65
The virtues of legalization = 67
Jack Donnelly
Is the legalization of human rights really the problem? Genocide in the Guatemalan Historical Clarification
Commission = 81
Richard Ashby Wilson
PART III Human rights law in action = 99
Revisioning the role of law in women's human rights struggles = 101
Ratna Kapur
The bureaucratic gaze of international human rights law = 117
David Chandler
Verdictive discourses, shame and judicialization in pursuit of freedom of association rights = 134
Edward Weisband
PART IV Interpretation and legal authority = 163
From the theory of discovery to the theory of recognition of indigenous rights: conventional international law
in search of homeopathy = 165
Natalia Alvarez Molinero
Politics of reading human rights: inclusion and exclusion within the production of human rights = 182
Upendra Baxi
Index 201