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Concrete Utopia
The Concrete Utopia conceptualizes the human rights project of the last two and a half centuries as a "backward-looking" endeavor, which, in order to move forward, must return to the utopian roots of its foundational documents. Human rights advance by judging the ills of the present world from a standpoint in the future where they might no longer exist--a fundamentally utopian gesture. This peculiar character of human rights makes them continually ripe for reinvention and for responding to changing circumstances in the world. With a particular focus on developments from the 1960s until the present, this book addresses the history of human rights movements and how human rights have been recon...
Double Standards
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Double Standards: International Criminal Law and the West
In this book, Wolfgang Kaleck, an internationally active human rights and criminal lawyer, assesses the practice of international criminal law to date and analyses one of its main weaknesses: International criminal justice purports to be universal, but in reality it often operates in a politically selective manner. Until now, hardly any of those most responsible for international crimes committed by Western states have faced trial. Against the backdrop of this criticism, the book advocates a truly universal practice of international criminal law which holds even the most powerful accountable for crimes they have committed. Kaleck also tells the stories of survivors of human rights violations and human rights organizations that struggle for universal accountability for international crimes. He argues that the proponents of universal criminal justice must actively address existing double standards, as "it will not be possible to speak of a universal criminal justice system with equal rights and access to justice for all until the instigators and organizers of Guantanamo and of the atrocities in Chechnya are held accountable for their actions.""
Law Versus Power
The author, founder and General Secretary of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), chronicles work and related events surrounding campaigns against several perpetrators of human rights violations around the world.
International Prosecution of Human Rights Crimes
The book explores recent developments in the international and national prosecution of persons accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. It considers the relationship between national and international law, science and practice, with emphasis on the emerging principle of universial jurisdiction and the effect of "the war on terror" on legal norms.
Colonial Wrongs and Access to International Law
This eye-opening book invites careful reflection on how we should respond to colonial and post-colonial wrongs from the perspective of international law, in particular international criminal law. In addition to a dozen case studies, the book offers analyses based on legal concepts such as subjugation, debellatio, continuing crime, and transfer of civilians, as well as on the discourses of Third World Approaches to International Law and transitional justice. It contains a number of practical suggestions for what can be done to enhance a sense of access to international law in connection with colonial wrongs. The book has eighteen chapters organised in five parts, addressing the context of the...
Mit Recht gegen die Macht
Wolfgang Kaleck ist bekannt als Rechtsvertreter von Edward Snowden, doch seine Geschichte reicht viel tiefer. Als idealistischer junger Anwalt vertritt er zur Nachwendezeit in Deutschland Opfer von Stasi und Neonazis. Bei Reisen in Südamerika trifft er auf Menschen, deren Leben von Folter und Gewalt geprägt sind. Erst jetzt wird ihm klar, dass er sich ganz dem Kampf um Menschenrechte widmen will – nicht als Einzelner, sondern als einer von vielen, die sich für eine bessere, solidarische Welt einsetzen. Heute ist er ein weltweit agierender politischer Jurist und Aktivist. Wie er dazu wurde, was ihn geprägt hat und warum die Frage nach den Menschenrechten immer auch eine Systemfrage ist, davon handelt dieses Buch.
