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Human Rights in Crisis: The International System for Protecting Human Rights during States of Emergency. By Joan Fitzpatrick. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994. Pp. viii, 250. Index. $41.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Jerome J. Shestack*
Affiliation:
Of the Pennsylvania Bar

Abstract

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Book Reviews and Notes
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1996 

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References

1 See Second Interim Report of the Committee on the Enforcement of Human Rights Law, in International Law Association, Report of the Sixty-third Conference 40 (1988).

2 See Theodor Meron, Human Rights and Humanitarian Norms as Customary Law (1989).

3 See 7 Hum. Rts. Q. 1 (1985).

4 The fundamental concept of the necessity of a proposition (outside the physical realm) is controversial in philosophy. The influential American philosopher Willard Quine doubts whether the concept is useful to thought and regards necessity as no more than a disguised contingency.