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Cities as democratic representatives in international law-making

Besson, Samantha ; Martí, José Luis

In: Research handbook on international law and cities, 2021, p. 341-353

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The Holders of Human Rights : The Bright Side of Human Rights?

Besson, Samantha

In: The Oxford Handbook of Global Justice, 2020, p. 99-121

International human rights law and practice reveal an ambivalent approach to the personal scope of human rights: human rights are often less equal or general than they claim and are claimed to be. The inequalities of human rights are of two kinds: some vulnerable individuals are also protected by special rights, thus drawing an internal boundary within the scope of human rights-holders, while...

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Sovereign States and their International Institutional Order : Carrying Forward Dworkin's Work on the Political Legitimacy of International Law

Besson, Samantha

In: Jus Cogens: a critical journal of philosophy of law and politics (online), 2020, vol. 2, no. 1, p. 1-28

International law’s legitimacy has come under serious attack lately, including, and maybe even more so, in regimes considered democratic. Reading Dworkin’s New Philosophy for International Law in the current context is a timely reminder of the centrality of the political legitimacy of international law. Interestingly, indeed, his account does not succumb to the (however progressive)...

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COVID-19 and the WHO's Political Moment

Besson, Samantha

In: EJIL Talk : Blog of the European Journal of International Law, 2020, p. 1-4

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The Human Right to Democracy in International Law : Coming to Moral Terms with an Equivocal Legal Practice

Besson, Samantha

In: The Cambridge Handbook of New Human Righs: Recognition, Novelty, Rhetoric, 2020, p. 481-489