New Human Rights Casebook Focuses on Advocacy in the U.S.
There’s a new casebook in town! Joining the roster of excellent texts on international human rights law is a new and unique law school textbook focused (like this blog) on bringing human rights home to the U.S.:
Human Rights Advocacy in the United States, by Martha F. Davis, Johanna Kalb and Risa E. Kaufman (West Oct. 2014)
A link to the West webpage on the book is here. A Teacher’s Manual will be available in November.
According to the publisher:
This pedagogically innovative book is the first of its kind to focus on human rights advocacy in the United States, illuminating a range of important theoretical and doctrinal issues while equipping students to thoughtfully engage these tools in their own practice of law. Readings and case studies expose students to the history, tools, and critiques of the domestic human rights movement and the legal and practical challenges of human rights implementation in the United States. Skills exercises introduce practice-oriented approaches to engaging human rights-based strategies, including practice before international treaty bodies as well as domestic policymakers. Additionally, the appendices offer the text of relevant human rights treaties.
Appropriate for introductory and advanced seminars, as well as clinical and other experiential offerings, the materials engage students on a remarkable range of issues, including immigration, rights of indigenous peoples, counterterrorism and human rights, disparities in access to health care, and the right to housing, while also exploring fundamental issues of federalism, sovereignty, judicial review and legal ethics.