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This book explores a specific discursivity at work in international human rights law. It examines the ways in which the discourse on international human rights law constantly expands its domain while preserving its distinctiveness from general international law. It particularly exposes the oscillations between generalist and exceptionalist claims made in international human rights law for the sake of expanding its scope. Reviewing several contemporary controversies on international human rights law, it sheds lights on the possible drivers behind such expansionist discursivity.
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Expansionism in International Human Rights Law
Işıl Aral and Jean d'Aspremont
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Introduction
1 The Expansionist Discursivity of International Human Rights Law
2 International Human Rights Law as an Expansionist Discourse
3 Oscillation between Generalism and Exceptionalism
4 The Wide Range of Expansionist Uses of the Sources of International Human Rights Law
5 Possible Drivers of Expansionism in International Human Rights Law
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