ABSTRACT
Anyone who has frequented Nigel Rodley knows that his pleasure in abstract discussion of human rights can sometimes be overtaken by his concern to know whether or not any given right will have real teeth. He keeps our eyes on the problem that there is here, as elsewhere, many a slip between cup and lip. Sometimes the slip can be chalked up to failures of political will, to downright bad faith, or – at the opposite end – to the ill-thought-out designs of those wanting to see the right respected in all corners of society without bothering to consider precisely how this might happen.
