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Seyla Benhabib

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Legal Principles of a New World Governance

The Future of Democratic Sovereignty and Transnational Law
¤ Seyla Benhabib ¤ 8 September 2014
This essay examines the rise of legal cosmopolitanism in the period since the UDHR of 1948 as it gives rise to two very distinct sets of literature and preoccupations. The author argues that transnational human rights norms strengthen rather than weaken democratic sovereignty. read more

For this author, you will find on this Web site 1 article(s) in English, 0 article(s) in Spanish, 0 article(s) in French, 0 article(s) in chinese.

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