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Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World. By Samuel Moyn. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. ix, 220. Index.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2019

Harlan Grant Cohen
Harlan Grant Cohen*
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University of Georgia School of Law
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 113 , Issue 2 , April 2019 , pp. 415 - 419
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References

1 Samuel Moyn, Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (2010).

2 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, entered into force Mar. 23, 1976, 999 UNTS 171; International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, entered into force Jan. 3, 1976, 993 UNTS 3.

3 See, e.g., Martha Nussbaum & Amartya Sen, The Quality of Life (1993).

4 Republic of South Africa v. Grootboom, Case No. CCT 11/00, 2000 (11) BCLR 1169 (CC) (S. Afr.). See also David Caron, Joan Fitzpatrick & Ron C. Slye, Republic of South Africa v. Grootboom, 97 AJIL 669 (2003).

5 “[E]veryone was treated more equally than ever before, except materially,” Moyn sums up (p. 203).

6 Michael Shermer, How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science 61 (2000); Gould, Stephen Jay, The Panda's Thumb of Technology, 96 Nat. Hist. 14–23 (1987)Google Scholar.

7 See, e.g., Cover, Robert M., The Supreme Court, 1982 Term—Foreword: Nomos and Narrative, 97 Harv. L. Rev. 4 (1983)CrossRefGoogle Scholar

8 See id. at 4.

9 See, e.g., Wuerth, Ingrid, International Law in the Post-Human Rights Era, 96 Tex. L. Rev. 279 (2017)Google Scholar.

10 See, e.g., Claussen, Kathleen & Grewal, David Singh, Introduction to the Yale Symposium on Trade Law Under the Trump Administration, 44 Yale J. Int'l Online 1, 1 (2018)Google Scholar; Roberts, Anthea, Incremental, Systemic, and Paradigmatic Reform of Investor-State Arbitration, 112 AJIL 410, 410 (2018)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

11 See, e.g., Cohen, Harlan Grant, Multilateralism's Life Cycle, 112 AJIL 47, 47 (2018)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

12 See Wuerth, supra note 9.

13 See Cohen, supra note 11, at 47, 58–59, 62.

14 See, e.g., Puig, Sergio & Shaffer, Gregory, Imperfect Alternatives: Institutional Choice and the Reform of Investment Law, 112 AJIL 361 (2018)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Roberts, supra note 9.

15 As Moyn, suggests (p. 210), Thomas Piketty's book Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013), with its tough lessons about the rates of return on capital versus labor and the return of historic inequality between the two, has played a particular role alongside populist politics in putting socio-economic justice on the mainstream intellectual-cultural-political agenda.

16 Dani Rodrik, Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane World Economy (2017).

17 Branko Milanović, Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization (2016).

18 Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (2018).

19 Adam Tooze, Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World (2018).

20 J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (2016).

21 Alissa Quart, Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America (2017).

22 Edward Luce, The Retreat of Western Liberalism (2017).

23 Mehrsa Baradaran, How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy (2015).

24 See, e.g., Report of the Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, UN Doc. A/HRC/29/31 (May 27, 2015).

25 See, e.g., Cohen, Harlan Grant, What Is International Trade Law for?, 113 AJIL 326 (2019)Google Scholar; Shaffer, Gregory, Retooling Trade Agreements for Social Inclusion, 2019 Ill. L. Rev. 1 (forthcoming 2019)Google Scholar; Garcia, Frank J. & Meyer, Timothy, Restoring Trade's Social Contract, 116 Mich. L. Rev. Online 78 (2018)Google Scholar.

26 See Cohen, supra note 25, at 336–340.

27 Oona Hathaway & Scott Shapiro, The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World (2017).

28 Tooze, supra note 19.