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World Justice? U.S. Courts and International Human Rights. Edited by Mark Gibney. Boulder, San Francisco, Oxford: Westview Press, 1991. Pp. iv, 178. $39.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

David Carliner*
Affiliation:
Of the District of Columbia Bar

Abstract

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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1992

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References

1 322 U.S. 633 (1948).

2 This is to be distinguished from the effort to achieve human rights objectives in other forums: in the executive branch in the conduct of foreign relations, in Congress with the enactment of restrictions on appropriations for foreign aid, in the organs of the United Nations and other intergovernmental organizations, and in influencing public opinion to impel governments to “give decent respect for the opinion of mankind,” none of which is the subject of the essays in Gibney's collection.

3 630 F.2d 876, 884–85 (2d Cir. 1980). “299 U.S. 304, 319 (1936).

4 299 U.S. 304, 319 (1936).

5 Human Rights in the World Community 31 (Richard Pierre Claude & Bums H. Weston eds., 2d ed. 1992).