Helen M. Stacy - Human Rights for the 21st Century: Sovereignty, Civil Society, Culture

Stanford University Press

Stanford, California

2009 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Stacy, Helen.

Human rights for the 21st century: sovereignty, civil society, culture / Helen M. Stacy.

p. cm.--(Stanford studies in human rights)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780804771023

1. Human rights. 2. Sovereignty. 3. Civil society. 4. Culture and law. I. Title. II. Series: Stanford studies in human rights.

K3240.S7185 2009

341.48--dc22

2008047520

Typeset by Bruce Lundquist in 10/15 Minion Pro

THE RESEARCH FOR THIS BOOK could not have been completed without the generous support provided by Stanford Law School and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. I am also indebted to my colleagues and my students for their intellectual encouragement.

Over the past years, I have had opportunities to present my work and receive invaluable feedback from participants at workshops and symposia where I have presented aspects of my research. At my own institution, I wish to thank colleagues at faculty workshops at Stanford Law School, the Center on Democracy Development and the Rule of Law at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies of Stanford University, and the Law and History Workshop at Stanford Humanities Center; the Global Justice Workshop at Stanford Humanities Center, November 2005; and Stanford Department of Africa Studies. Beyond Stanford I have benefited from the opportunity to present my ideas at the Australian Society for Legal Philosophy, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 2007; the Global Constitutionalism Conference, Stanford Law School, February 2007; the International Law WeekendWest, Santa Clara University, February 2007; the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, 2007; the Brisbane Ideas Festival, Australia, March 2006; the American Society of International Law, Washington, D.C., 2005; the International Society for Social and Legal Philosophy, Granada, 2005; the University of California at Irvine, December 2005; the American Bar Association, Atlanta, 2004; and the American Section of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Palo Alto, Calif., 2004 and Saint Louis, Mo., 2006.

Excellent research assistance and editing was provided by Adi Aron Gilat, Rachel Lee, Rajat Rana, and Cecilia Naddeo. The manuscript was prepared with superlative skill and unceasing patience by Judy Dearing, to whom I owe a special debt of appreciation.

My heartfelt gratitude goes to the anonymous reviewers of the manuscript for their thoughtful comments; to Kathleen Sullivan for invaluable encouragement; to Laura Donohue and Karoly Nikolich for careful reading of draft chapters; to Eleanor and Izabella Endre-Stacy for providing incentive; and to Netty Stacy for more sustenance than I can every repay.