BOOK REVIEW: Tshosa, Onkemetse. NATIONAL LAW AND INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW: CASES OF BOTSWANA, NAMIBIA AND ZIMBABWE. Aldershot, Eng., and Burlington, Vermont.: Ashgate Publishing, 2001.

Africa Today ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-166
Author(s):  
Dalvan M. Coger
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
International Human ◽  
Ashgate Publishing

International Human Rights Law and Its Critics

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 353-369
Author(s):  
Marissa Ooms
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Human Rights Movement ◽  
International Human ◽  
Book Review Essay

This book review essay critically reflects on The Twilight of Human Rights Law by Eric Posner. I compare his arguments with some of the findings in the books The Endtimes of Human Rights by Stephen Hopgood and The Dark Sides of Virtue by David Kennedy. All three books contain a pragmatic critique on international human rights law. I conclude that Posner succeeds in pointing to certain fundamental challenges that the international human rights movement should address. However, by wholly rejecting the idea of international human rights law, Posner in fact makes an ideological rather than pragmatic move. The problems that the book identifies should not be regarded as a reason to dismiss the regime in its entirety, but rather as an opportunity to improve it so that the supposed gap between local human rights activism and international human rights law may close.

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