HUMAN RIGHTS IN INTERNATIONAL LAW? THE FORGOTTEN ORIGINS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN LATIN AMERICA
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Patrick Macklem’s book is a welcome intervention in current discussions about the contextual and structural dimensions that account for human rights abuses. Macklem’s book contributes to this discussion, introducing the international legal order as a relevant dimension to be considered. Macklem does so by arguing that international law in part structures our globalized world and that human rights as international legal entitlements also play a role in this process. Human rights, Macklem argues, monitor the international legal order’s structuring of our world, they mitigate the adverse consequences of this structuring, and, when monitoring and mitigating, they also render the international legal order legitimate. What Macklem proposes is a conceptual link between human rights and the international legal order, in which legitimacy of the latter depends on meeting the structural demands of justice required by the former. This conceptual link, however, requires actual articulation. I will explore an example of this articulation in Latin America. When human rights appeared in the region, they did so under a conception that linked them to the international legal structure. Latin American states participated in the codification of human rights not only to limit the scope of diplomatic protection but also to give social policies like land redistribution international legitimacy. While the conceptual link identified by Macklem is crucial, the Latin American example suggests that it was an underlying political ideology about regional solidarity – the project of ‘American International Law’ – which allowed human rights to embody structural transformation. With that ideological project gone, it remains to been seen if human rights, at least in Latin America, may again convey yearnings for international justice.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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