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International human rights law is most efficacious when it is both incorporated into domestic law and translated into local contexts. Yet, cities as independent implementers of unratified international law have received limited scholarly attention. This article examines such renegade municipal localization of international law through an analysis of San Francisco and Los Angeles's binding ordinances implementing the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) – a treaty to which the United States in not a party. The analysis demonstrates that municipal ordinances in US charter cities are robust legal mechanisms that can help actualize human rights in large urban populations, despite national inaction. Nonetheless, municipal localization of unratified international law – in both the content of the ordinances and their implementation over time – is driven predominantly by local context and city politics rather than conformity to the international treaty on which the ordinances are based. While this importantly demonstrates that unratified international law can be made relevant to cities, the insularity of local ordinances can also result in limited accountability for non-implementation and the ordinances evolving apart from international treaty developments.

Mode of access: Internet. ; Bound with League of nations. Secretariat. .International municipal co-operation.

Preliminary Material /M. Kohen and L. Boisson De Chazournes -- Chapter 1. Vera And The (Re)Turn To Aesthetics /Daniel Warner -- Chapter 2. The Security Council Legibus Solutus? On The Legislative Forays Of The Council /Georges Abi-Saab -- Chapter 3. The Subject Of Subjects And The Attribution Of Attribution /Andrew Clapham -- Chapter 4. La Désuétude De L'Article 26 De La Charte Des Nations Unies, Expression De L'Échec Du Système Onusien /Monique Chemillier-Gendreau -- Chapter 5. Le Conseil De Sécurité, Les Sanctions Ciblées Et Le Respect Des Droits De L'Homme /Luigi Condorelli -- Chapter 6. There Is No Need To Change The Composition Of The Security Council. It Is Time For Stressing Accountability /Marcelo G. Kohen -- Chapter 7. L'(Ir)Responsabilité Des Forces Multinationales? /Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos -- Chapter 8. Targeted Sanctions And Obligations Of States On Listing And De-Listing Procedures /Djacoba Liva Tehindrazanarivelo -- Chapter 9. Fear's Legal Dimension: Counterterrorism And Human Rights /Andrea Bianchi -- Chapter 10. The Human Rights Council And The Challenges Of The United Nations System On Human Rights: Towards A Cultural Revolution? /Vincent Chetail -- Chapter 11. International Humanitarian Law, Human Rights And The Uk Courts /Christine Chinkin -- Chapter 12. Autour De L'Affaire Stoll /Lucius Cafl Isch -- Chapter 13. Droits Individuels Et Droits De L'Homme: Chevauchements Et Différences /Christian Dominicé -- Chapter 14. The Extra-Territorial Reach Of Human Rights Obligations: A Brief Perspective On The Link To Jurisdiction /Guy S. Goodwin-Gill -- Chapter 15. The Wall In The Occupied Palestinian Territory /Vaughan Lowe -- Chapter 16. Compliance With Human Rights Norms Extraterritorially: 'Human Rights Imperialism'? /Ralph Wilde -- Chapter 17. Standards Et Normes Techniques Dans L'Ordre Juridique Contemporain : Quelques Réflexions /Laurence Boisson De Chazournes -- Chapter 18. Towards An International Law Of Responsibility: Early Doctrine By James Crawford, Th Omas Grant, Francesco Messineo /M. Kohen and L. Boisson De Chazournes -- Chapter 19. Advisory Opinions And The Secretary-General With Special Reference To The 2004 Advisory Opinion On The Wall /John Dugard -- Chapter 20. Unity In The Application Of International Law At The Global Level And The Responsibility Of Judges At The National Level: Reviewing Georges Scelle's 'Role Splitting' Theory /Pierre-Marie Dupuy -- Chapter 21. The Binding Nature Of The Decisions Of The International Court Of Justice /Abdul G. Koroma -- Chapter 22. Choosing Our International Judges, Past And Present /Philippe Sands -- Chapter 23. La Paix Par Le Droit. Entre Réalité, Mythe Et Utopie /Eric Wyler -- List Of Contributors /M. Kohen and L. Boisson De Chazournes -- Table Of Instruments /M. Kohen and L. Boisson De Chazournes -- Index /M. Kohen and L. Boisson De Chazournes.