Book contents
- Transnational Lawmaking Coalitions for Human Rights
- Transnational Lawmaking Coalitions for Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Human Rights Treaty Interpretation
- 3 Transnational Lawmaking Coalitions
- 4 How Water Became a Human Right
- 5 Interpretation across Treaty Bodies
- 6 Lawmaking without Governments?
- 7 Conclusion
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
3 - Transnational Lawmaking Coalitions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 November 2021
- Transnational Lawmaking Coalitions for Human Rights
- Transnational Lawmaking Coalitions for Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Human Rights Treaty Interpretation
- 3 Transnational Lawmaking Coalitions
- 4 How Water Became a Human Right
- 5 Interpretation across Treaty Bodies
- 6 Lawmaking without Governments?
- 7 Conclusion
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter presents the book’s core theoretical contribution of the transnational lawmaking coalition (TLC), a concept that brings fresh insight to the IR and IO literatures. Operating outside the IO borders of the treaty body system, TLCs are informal and temporary coalitions of state-empowered expert bodies and issue professionals that, in pressing for clarification of state obligations through the instrument of treaty interpretations, can contribute to the development of international law without direct government involvement. This chapter distinguishes TLCs from other collective transnational actor-types, introduces the main triggers of a TLC’s genesis, explains the logic behind its members’ participation in such a coalition, and articulates how TLCs organize their drafting work and under which conditions they are influential.
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- Transnational Lawmaking Coalitions for Human Rights , pp. 37 - 65Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021