centre for the study of human rights----london school of economics

http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/31171/1/Implications_and_imperfections_of_practice_(LSERO_version).pdf

international human rights theory
2010
london school of economics paper

"the implications and imperfections of practice"
kirstin ainley


resolution read only modern theory
and then feel somewhat troubled by london school of economics
"the limits of human rights" pessimism goes not far enough
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/research/theLimitsOfHumanRights.aspx
with sociologist chetan bhatt

which seem to express some of the skepticism i hold---
even especially in re: anwar al alaki extrajudicial assassination order and federal court defense of such an order


but it is seeming to hinge on the concept of his "citizen" status, which to me, seems utterly ideologically subservient to this artificial notion that citizenship might confer extra rights beyond that which is humane . . .
which is exactly the trouble with the off american soil guantanamo thing . . .
and yes
things are getting worse legally

yes we will execute citizens and non-citizens alike

and the idea of rights  . . .