Lawrence J Leblanc
Biographic Data
| ID | 845309 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lawrence J Leblanc |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lawrence J |
| FAMILY NAME | Leblanc |
| SIGNATURE | LEBLANC L J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Marquette University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Compliance with the reporting requirements of human rights conventions
Compliance with the reporting requirements of human rights conventions is the basis for monitoring how, and how well, the states parties to the conventions are working towards the implementation of the norms of the conventions. This article aims to understand why some states comply with reporting requirements and others do not, and why some report on time and others do not. The article is an empirical test of the potential effects of regime type,…
Children's Human Rights: Progress and Challenges for Children Worldwide and Freedom from Want: The Human Right to Adequate Food
Children's Human Rights: Progress and Challenges for Children Worldwide. Edited by Mark Ensalaco and Linda C. Majka. New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005. 288p. $82.50 cloth, $32.95 paper. Freedom from Want: The Human Right to Adequate Food. By George Kent. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2005. 290p. $49.95 cloth, $26.95 paper. The body of literature on international human rights has grown tremendously in the last …
Reservations to the Convention on the Rights of the Child: A macroscopic view of state practice
The Convention on the Rights of the Child: United Nations lawmaking on human rights
In November 1989, the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) after nearly a decade of debate over its merits and provisions. Less than a year later, it was ratified by twenty countries, the threshold number required for implementation. No other UN human rights treaty was ever ratified so rapidly and with such enthusiasm. In this carefully researched book, Lawrence J. LeBlanc provides a historical overview of the or…
Human Rights Treaties and the Senate: A History of Opposition
The Convention on the Rights of the Child
The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child in November, 1989, bringing to a close ten years of debate and discussion over the merits of the project as well as the content of its main provisions. Although some representatives expressed misgivings about the content of several articles of the convention, it was adopted by a broad consensus among the member states of the United Nations. In fact, in less than…
The Intent to Destroy Groups in the Genocide Convention: The Proposed U.S. Understanding
The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (the Genocide Convention) in December 1948. A representative of the United States signed the Convention, and President Truman later transmitted it to the Senate with a request that it give its advice and consent to ratification. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held hearings on the Convention in 1950. It has since held hearin…
The OAS and the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights and the Interamerican System
The human rights proclaimed and affirmed in the various international declarations, conventions, and covenants adopted since World War II fall into two broad categories: civil and political; and economic, social, and cultural. The former includes the traditional rights of man, such as the rights to life and liberty; the latter includes such rights as the right to work, to social security, and to the preservation of one's health and well-being.Int…
The Convention on the Rights of the Child
The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child in November, 1989, bringing to a close ten years of debate and discussion over the merits of the project as well as the content of its main provisions. Although some representatives expressed misgivings about the content of several articles of the convention, it was adopted by a broad consensus among the member states of the United Nations. In fact, in less than…
The Convention on the Rights of the Child: United Nations lawmaking on human rights
In November 1989, the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) after nearly a decade of debate over its merits and provisions. Less than a year later, it was ratified by twenty countries, the threshold number required for implementation. No other UN human rights treaty was ever ratified so rapidly and with such enthusiasm. In this carefully researched book, Lawrence J. LeBlanc provides a historical overview of the or…
Compliance with the reporting requirements of human rights conventions
Compliance with the reporting requirements of human rights conventions is the basis for monitoring how, and how well, the states parties to the conventions are working towards the implementation of the norms of the conventions. This article aims to understand why some states comply with reporting requirements and others do not, and why some report on time and others do not. The article is an empirical test of the potential effects of regime type,…
Reservations to the Convention on the Rights of the Child: A macroscopic view of state practice
The Intent to Destroy Groups in the Genocide Convention: The Proposed U.S. Understanding
The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (the Genocide Convention) in December 1948. A representative of the United States signed the Convention, and President Truman later transmitted it to the Senate with a request that it give its advice and consent to ratification. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held hearings on the Convention in 1950. It has since held hearin…
Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights and the Interamerican System
The human rights proclaimed and affirmed in the various international declarations, conventions, and covenants adopted since World War II fall into two broad categories: civil and political; and economic, social, and cultural. The former includes the traditional rights of man, such as the rights to life and liberty; the latter includes such rights as the right to work, to social security, and to the preservation of one's health and well-being.Int…
The OAS and the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
The Intent to Destroy Groups in the Genocide Convention: The Proposed U.S. Understanding
The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (the Genocide Convention) in December 1948. A representative of the United States signed the Convention, and President Truman later transmitted it to the Senate with a request that it give its advice and consent to ratification. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held hearings on the Convention in 1950. It has since held hearin…
The Convention on the Rights of the Child
The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child in November, 1989, bringing to a close ten years of debate and discussion over the merits of the project as well as the content of its main provisions. Although some representatives expressed misgivings about the content of several articles of the convention, it was adopted by a broad consensus among the member states of the United Nations. In fact, in less than…
Human Rights Treaties and the Senate: A History of Opposition
The Convention on the Rights of the Child: United Nations lawmaking on human rights
In November 1989, the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) after nearly a decade of debate over its merits and provisions. Less than a year later, it was ratified by twenty countries, the threshold number required for implementation. No other UN human rights treaty was ever ratified so rapidly and with such enthusiasm. In this carefully researched book, Lawrence J. LeBlanc provides a historical overview of the or…
Reservations to the Convention on the Rights of the Child: A macroscopic view of state practice
Children's Human Rights: Progress and Challenges for Children Worldwide and Freedom from Want: The Human Right to Adequate Food
Children's Human Rights: Progress and Challenges for Children Worldwide. Edited by Mark Ensalaco and Linda C. Majka. New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005. 288p. $82.50 cloth, $32.95 paper. Freedom from Want: The Human Right to Adequate Food. By George Kent. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2005. 290p. $49.95 cloth, $26.95 paper. The body of literature on international human rights has grown tremendously in the last …
Compliance with the reporting requirements of human rights conventions
Compliance with the reporting requirements of human rights conventions is the basis for monitoring how, and how well, the states parties to the conventions are working towards the implementation of the norms of the conventions. This article aims to understand why some states comply with reporting requirements and others do not, and why some report on time and others do not. The article is an empirical test of the potential effects of regime type,…
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