What mechanisms facilitate state compliance with human rights? This article proposes and
applies a model to assess the extent to which two United Nations human rights mechanisms …

Conventional wisdom treats politicization in the international human rights regime as
invariant: for any given violation, states condemn adversaries while coddling friends …

Transnational Lawmaking Coalitions is the first comprehensive analysis of the role and
impact of informal collaborations in the UN human rights treaty bodies. Issues as central to …

Customary international law is one of the principal sources of public international law.
Although its existence is uncontroversial, until now the content of customary international …

Abstract The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism is the most recent and distinct
addition to the UN human rights system because of the level of state control over the …

International organizations (IOs) dispatch fact-finding missions to establish epistemic
authority by objectively and impartially assessing contested facts. Despite this technocratic …

Liberal democracy is facing renewed challenges from a growing group of states undergoing
democratic backsliding. While entrenched autocrats have long resented and contested the …

This article conducts a comparative analysis of peer and public pressure in peer reviews
among states. Arguing that such pressure is one increasingly important form of shaming in …

To what extent is the current “crisis of the liberal international order” a result of features of the
order itself? In this article, we focus on the role of formal and informal hierarchies by …

ABSTRACT In March 2019, the United Nations Human Rights Council finalized its periodic
review of China's human rights record just as human rights in China were under intensified …