Expansionism in International Human Rights Law

Işıl Aral is Assistant Professor of Public International Law at Koç University. Her research focuses on international legal theory and international human rights law. Her monograph 'International Law as a Set of Narratives' will be published by Cambridge University Press. Jean d’Aspremont is Professor of International Law at Sciences Po School of Law and at the University of Manchester. He is General Editor of Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law.

Expansionism in International Human Rights Law


 Işıl Aral and Jean d’Aspremont





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 Introduction


 1 The Expansionist Discursivity of International Human Rights Law


 2 International Human Rights Law as an Expansionist Discourse


 3 Oscillation between Generalism and Exceptionalism


 4 The Wide Range of Expansionist Uses of the Sources of International Human Rights Law


 5 Possible Drivers of Expansionism in International Human Rights Law


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