Human Rights in a Time of Populism: Challenges and Responses

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The electoral successes of right-wing populists since 2016 have unsettled world politics. The spread of populism poses dangers for human rights within each country, and also threatens the international system for protecting human rights. Human Rights in a Time of Populism examines causes, consequences, and responses to populism in a global context from a human rights perspective. It combines legal analysis with insights from political science, international relations, and political philosophy. Authors make practical recommendations on how the human rights challenges caused by populism should be confronted. This book, with its global scope, international human rights framing, and inclusion of leading experts, will be of great interest to human rights lawyers, political scientists, international relations scholars, actors in the human rights system, and general readers concerned by recent developments.

Gerald L. Neuman is the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law and the Co-Director of the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School. He teaches human rights, US constitutional law, and immigration and nationality law. From 2011 to 2014, he was a member of the UN Human Rights Committee, the treaty body that monitors compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Among others, he is the author of Strangers to the Constitution: Immigrants, Borders and Fundamental Law (1996) and co-editor of Human Rights, Democracy, and Legitimacy in a World of Disorder (2018).

'All in all, a fascinating study on the causes, consequences, and responses of populism, put together by distinguished legal scholars, political scientists, and human rights experts.' P. Kurzer, Choice