The Evolving International Human Rights System

Bibliographic Data

ID9561971
AuthorsThomas Buergenthal (corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume100
Issue4
Pages783-807
Publication date2006-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of International Law (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-9300 • E-ISSN: 2161-7953
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0002930000031894
OpenAlexW84812266
LanguageEN
Citations received27
References cited21

Few, if any, branches of international law have undergone such dramatic growth and evolution as international human rights in the one hundred years since the founding of the American Society of International Law. This branch of international law did not really come into its own until after World War II. Before then, what today we would broadly characterize as human rights law consisted of diffuse or unrelated legal principles and institutional arrangements that were in one way or another designed to protect certain categories or groups of human beings. Included in this mix prior to World War I were state responsibility for injuries to aliens, international humanitarian law (as we know it today), the protection of minorities, and humanitarian intervention

Human rights · Humanitarian intervention · International human rights law · International humanitarian law · International law · Political science · Public international law · Responsibility to Protect · State (computer science · State responsibility · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Human Rights and Development · International Law and Human Rights · Law

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