Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of New Human Rights
- The Cambridge Handbook of New Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Cross-Cutting Observations
- Part II Public Good Rights
- Part III Status Rights
- Part IV New Technology Rights
- Part V Autonomy and Integrity Rights
- Part VI Governance Rights
- The Right to Democracy
- 36 Remnants of a Constitutional Moment
- 37 The Human Right to Democracy in International Law
- The Right to Good Administration
- The Right to Freedom from Corruption
- The Right of Access to Law
- Index
37 - The Human Right to Democracy in International Law
Coming to Moral Terms with an Equivocal Legal Practice
from The Right to Democracy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 January 2020
- The Cambridge Handbook of New Human Rights
- The Cambridge Handbook of New Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Cross-Cutting Observations
- Part II Public Good Rights
- Part III Status Rights
- Part IV New Technology Rights
- Part V Autonomy and Integrity Rights
- Part VI Governance Rights
- The Right to Democracy
- 36 Remnants of a Constitutional Moment
- 37 The Human Right to Democracy in International Law
- The Right to Good Administration
- The Right to Freedom from Corruption
- The Right of Access to Law
- Index
Summary
This reply to Sigrid Boysen proceeds in four steps: (1) it maps international law practice in order to identify whether it protects a principle of democracy (PoD) or even a human right to democracy (HR2D); (2) it surveys the philosophical discussions pertaining to that right to see how they relate to it; (3) it explains why and how exactly our legal discussions would benefit from drawing on philosophical justifications; and (4) it argues that the equivocal state of international legal practice pertaining to the HR2D may actually be justified morally, and that we would be better off endorsing the existing international customary principle of democracy without looking for a corresponding legal human right that cannot be morally justified.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of New Human RightsRecognition, Novelty, Rhetoric, pp. 481 - 490Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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