Table of Contents

1. Progress and pushback in the judicialization of human rights; 2. Backlash in theoretical context; 3. The politics of withdrawal; 4. Replacing the international justice regime; 5. Bureaucrats, budgets and backlash: Death by a thousand paper cuts; 6. Doctrinal challenges: Diluting the domestic impacts of international adjudication; 7. How to save the international justice regime; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

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This book provides a framework for understanding backlash against the international justice regime and how to save it.

About the Author

Courtney Hillebrecht is the Samuel Clark Waugh Distinguished Professor of International Relations and an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the author of Domestic Politics and International Human Rights Tribunals: The Problem of Compliance (Cambridge University Press, 2014).