Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Journal of Transnational Law & Policy
Abstract
This article begins by noting some of the broad legitimacy and democracy-based critiques of international law and of international organizations that have been made in recent years and which provide a broad backdrop against which the more narrowly focused debates in the human rights domain are taking place. It then recounts one current set of efforts to ensure some degree of accountability, at least on the part of those governments in whom the principal responsibility is vested for holding their peers to account for human rights violations. These efforts have been played out in the context of a debate over the possible establishment of criteria for membership by governments of the new Human Rights Council which is to be set up, probably as from 2006.
First Page
49
Volume
15
Publication Date
2005
Recommended Citation
Alston, Philip G., "Richard Lillich Memorial Lecture: Promoting the Accountability of Members of the New UN Human Rights Council" (2005). Faculty Articles. 11.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-articles/11
