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The International Commission of Jurists: Global Advocates for Human Rights. By Howard B. TolleyJr. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994. Pp. xvii, 344. Index. $36.95.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 February 2017
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1 In Filartiga v. Pena-Irala, 577 F.Supp. 860, 863 (E.D.N.Y. 1984), after remand from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 630 F.2d876 (2d Cir. 1980).
2 That human rights law is regularly disobeyed, even flouted, is no basis for the claim that it has no place except in the fantasies of “idealists.” One does not need to deny the existence or the significance of the nation-state to acknowledge this truth.
3 There is an odd and distracting inconsistency in tenses throughout the book.