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‘Human-Rightism’ and the Development of General International Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 December 2007

ARNOLD N. PRONTO
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Abstract

International human rights law norms and ‘human-rightist’ imperatives are increasingly ‘mainstreamed’ into general international law. The writer makes two modest assertions: that the success of this trend (i) makes it now possible to speak of general international law ‘sources’ of human rights obligations; and (ii) undermines claims of the ‘specialness’ of the human rights legal framework, which are a source of perplexity for the general international lawyer increasingly used to taking human rights law (as lex generalis) into account when interpreting and applying general international law.

Keywords

general international law‘human-rightism’human rightslex specialissources of international law
Type
"ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF JOHN DUGARD: THE PROTECTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL IN INTERNATIONAL LAW"
Information
Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , December 2007 , pp. 753 - 765
Copyright
© 2007 Foundation of the Leiden Journal of International Law

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