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The Rule of Law under Pressure

Wayne Sandholtz , Gregory Shaffer

The Rule of Law Under Pressure provides readers with an accessible and richly detailed assessment of recent challenges to the rule of law.The rule of law is closely tied to both democracy and human rights.The erosion of the rule of law, within a rising number of...

The Law and Politics of International Human Rights Courts

Wayne Sandholtz , Alec Stone Sweet

Combining perspectives from law and the social sciences, this book provides an account of the origins and evolution of six regional human rights courts. In each of these cases, judges sought to overcome political forces and legal obstacles that threatened to render the...

The Law and Politics of International Human Rights Courts

Wayne Sandholtz , Alec Stone Sweet

Combining perspectives from law and the social sciences, this book provides an account of the origins and evolution of six regional human rights courts. In each of these cases, judges sought to overcome political forces and legal obstacles that threatened to render the...

International Norms and Cycles of Change

Wayne Sandholtz , Kendall Stiles

Prohibiting Plunder

Wayne Sandholtz

For much of history, the rules of war decreed that "to the victor go the spoils." The winners in warfare routinely seized for themselves the artistic and cultural treasures of the defeated; plunder constituted a marker of triumph. By the twentieth century, international...

The Institutionalization of Europe

Neil Fligstein , Wayne Sandholtz , Alec Stone Sweet

In 1950, a European political space existed, if only as a very primitive site of international governance. Today, the European Union governs in an ever-growing number of policy domains. Increasingly dense networks of transnational actors representing electorates, member...

European Integration and Supranational Governance

Wayne Sandholtz , Alec Stone Sweet

The European Union began in 1957 as a treaty among six nations but today constitutes a supranational polity - one that creates rules that are binding on its 15 member countries and their citizens. This majesterial study confronts some of the most enduring questions...