Matthew Craven

TL;DR: The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CoLRC) as discussed by the authors has been in force for 17 years and has been used as a model for the promotion and protection of economic, social and cultural rights.

TL;DR: The role and significance of reciprocity in the conceptual structure of human rights 'treaties' has been explored in this paper, where it is argued that, whilst it is possible to maintain that human rights treaties are constructed on the basis of reciprocal relationships, doing so has certain theoretical and practical costs which are not necessarily outweighed by the envisaged harm of understanding them as legal instruments possessing certain distinct characteristics.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the tensions and ambiguities that run throughout the law of succession can only be understood by looking at the historical relationship between discourses on state succession, decolonization, and imperialism within the framework of international law.

TL;DR: The barbarians are like beasts and not to be ruled on the same principles as Chinese as mentioned in this paper... were one to attempt to control them by the great maxims of reason it would tend to nothing but the greatest confusion.