Pluralising Actors and Norms in Human Rights Treaties: Beyond Monolithic States
By (Author) Hinako Takata
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Hart Publishing
5th March 2026
United Kingdom
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Public international law: territory and statehood
Public international law: human rights
Public international law: international organizations and institutions
Hardback
256
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
This book radically reforms the classical paradigm of international law. It proposes a novel theoretical framework of the separation of powers in a globalised democratic society, where both actors and norms are pluralised beyond a unitary and monolithic state and international law as norms of, by, and for states.
The book applies this framework to holistically examine the interactions between human rights treaty organs the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and the UN Human Rights Committee and state organs, including parliaments, courts, administrative organs, and national human rights institutions. The book provides an innovative, original contribution to both the theory and practice of international human rights law.
Hinako Takata is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of International Public Policy, Osaka University, Japan.