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2013.
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| Summary/Abstract |
1. Justice Louise Arbor, the former UN Commissioner for Human Rights
in her address at the opening of 61
st
session of the Commission on
Human Rights emphasized the role of the Judiciary in the enforcement
of Human Rights. She said, "Courts the world over have been playing
an increasingly vital role in enforcing social and economic rights,
bringing them from the realms of charity to the reach of justice, linking
them and developing a body of ever-growing jurisprudence by which
we can be guided in bringing these vital rights to the reality of peoples'
lives". In order to understand the impact of international law, and in
particular, international human rights law on judicial decision-making,
one needs to look at the ways in which public international law has
affected decision-making in several jurisdictions around the world.
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