The radical ideation of peasants, the pseudo-radicalism of international human rights law, and the revolutionary lawyer

Salomon, Margot E. ORCID: 0009-0004-5221-4075 (2021) The radical ideation of peasants, the pseudo-radicalism of international human rights law, and the revolutionary lawyer. London Review of International Law, 8 (3). 425 - 456. ISSN 2050-6325

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This article questions the use of international human rights law in realising social transformation. It studies the new United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas, drawing on the commodity-form theory of law. Through this lens, foregrounding the relationship between capitalism and law and their shared constituent form, the contradiction in what is at times a radical normative project in international human rights law is revealed. With the unintended consequences of human rights lawyering made visible, this work turns to the means through which the advocate can launch a potentially transformative 'legal' strategy. An exploration of two seminal modes of reconciliation follows: reconciling the use of international human rights law with a commitment to social transformation and reconciling the post-capitalist politics of progressive lawyers with their use of the law.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://academic.oup.com/lril
Additional Information:	© 2021 The Author
Divisions:	Law
Subjects:	K Law > K Law (General)
Date Deposited:	05 Aug 2020 15:51
Last Modified:	01 Nov 2024 23:03
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/106098

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