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Article: International human rights and United States law: predictions of a courtwatcher.
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- Albany Law Review
- Article date:
- December 22, 2000
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THE KATE STONEMAN PROFESSORSHIP LECTURE
For a number of years, international law scholars like Harold Koh and activists like Dorothy Thomas have admonished domestic civil rights lawyers to "bring international law home."(1) Domestic activism is needed, according to Thomas, because the United States government has systematically tried to "shield itself from international accountability" by encouraging "a kind of learned insularity" of civil rights groups.(2) As a result, civil rights groups that are adamant in calling for domestic reforms to address race and gender discrimination and other civil rights issues have rarely framed those demands within the ...