Year: 2003
Type: article
Abstract: In the words of Anne-Marie Slaughter (writing in her memorial to Abe Chayes), Chayes and Chayes offer an evolving sense of the term in which "sovereignty no longer means the right to be left alone, but rather the right and capacity to participate 'in the regimes that make up the substance of international life."'Anne-Marie Slaughter, In Memoriam, 114 HARV.L. REV.682, 684-85 (2001) (quoting CHAYES & CHAYES, supra, at 27).2. It is easy to forget that individual rights are of only recent vintage in international law.As Louis Henkin reminds us:[F]or hundreds of years international law and the law governing individual life did not come together.International law, true to its name, was law only between States, governing only relations between States on the State level.What a State did inside its borders in relation to its own nationals remained its own affair, an element of its autonomy, a matter of its "domestic
Source: The Yale Law Journal
DOI: 10.2307/3657449
Author: Madhavi Sunder
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4251377608