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Corruption, Human Rights, and Development: Sovereignty and State Capacity to Promote Good Governance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

C. Raj Kumar*
Affiliation:
School of Law, City University of Hong Kong, China; India. Former Rhodes Scholar, University of Oxford, U.K.; Landon H. Gammon Fellow, Harvard Law School; James Souverine Gallo Memorial Scholar, Harvard University

Abstract

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Type
Sovereignty and the State in Asia: the Challenges of the Emerging International Order
Copyright
Copyright © The American Society of International Law 2005

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1 See generally, Krasner, Stephen D., Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy 264 (1999).Google Scholar

2 Falk, Richard, Sovereignty and Human Rights: The Search for Reconciliation, Issues of Democracy, May 2000, available at http://www.globalpolicy.org/nations/future/0312falk.htm (last visited 15 April 2005).Google Scholar

3 See generally, Kumar, C. Raj, National Human Rights Institutions—Good Governance Perspectives on Institutionalization of Human Rights, 19 Am. U. Int’l. L. Rev. 259(2003).Google Scholar

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5 For further reading, see Rajagopal, Balakrishnan, Corruption Legitimacy and Human Rights: The Dialectic of the Relationship, 14 Conn. J. Int’l L. 495 (1999)Google Scholar; Jayawickrama, Nihal, Corruption—A Violator of Human Rights'! Transparency International Working Paper, 1998, available at http://www.transparency.de/documents/work-papers/index.html (last visited 15 April 2005);Google Scholar Cocksroft, Lawrence, Corruption and Human Rights: A Crucial Link, Transparency International Working Paper, 1998, available at http://www.transparency.de/documents/work-papers/index.html(last visited 15 April 2005).Google Scholar

6 For further reading on human rights based approaches to developing corruption-free governance, see Kumar, C. Raj, Corruption and Human Rights—Promoting Transparency in Governance and the Fundamental Right to Corruption-Free Service in India, 17 Colum. J. Asian. L. 31 (2003);Google Scholar Kumar,, C. Raj, Human Rights Approaches of Corruption Control Mechanisms—Enhancing the Hong Kong Experience of Corruption Prevention Strategies, 5 San Diego Int’l L. J. 323 (2004).Google Scholar

7 See Kumar, C. Raj, Institutionalisation of Human Rights in Asia: Developmentalizing Rights to Promote Good Governance, 12 Asia Pac. L. Rev. 143 (2004).Google Scholar