The Embarrassment of the West

A Klose Analysis by Haylie Roy-White    Fabian Klose is a Senior Researcher at the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) in Mainz, Germany. His topics of interest include Human Rights, Humanitarian Law, Colonialism and Imperialism during the 19th and 20th centuries. In his chapter, titled “Source of Embarrassment; Human Rights, State of Emergency andContinue reading “The Embarrassment of the West”

Moyn and How Memory Made Way for the Movement we Know Today

By Shayla Beauchamp Samuel Moyn is currently a professor of Jurisprudence and History at Yale University. His areas of interest in legal scholarship include international law, human rights, the law of war, and legal thought. As an intellectual historian, he has worked on many subjects but focuses on twentieth-century European moral and political theory. HisContinue reading “Moyn and How Memory Made Way for the Movement we Know Today”

Cohen: A Nuanced Analysis of the Holocaust and Its Influence on Postwar Human Rights Projects

by Gabby Deschamps             G. Daniel Cohen is a practising historian who specializes in human rights history, French history, and modern European history as well as human rights law and international law. In his article titled, “The Holocaust and the Human Right Revolution”: A Reassessment,” he uses historiography and primary resource analysis to comment onContinue reading “Cohen: A Nuanced Analysis of the Holocaust and Its Influence on Postwar Human Rights Projects”