ABSTRACT
In The Heart of Human Rights, political philosopher Allen Buchanan claims a robustness of human rights law as something that amounts to “international law that claims the authority to regulate matters once considered to be the exclusive concern of the state, including the state’s treatment of its own citizens”. In a study of domestic judicial enforcement of international human rights agreements, Yonatan Lupu finds that two important factors significantly affect enforceability, namely, the cost of producing legally admissible evidence of abuses and the applicable legal standards of proof. Students of human rights are introduced to the subject through the common narratives of human rights as a global and universalistic world order. The proclamatory nature links human rights claims with the “man” of human rights, an empty vessel, and ever-present but undifferentiated and indeterminate attribute of human identity which awaits to be assigned predication, characteristics, a time and a place.
