NEW YORK UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND POLITICS

The authors employ an inside/outside construct in their analysis of the Vienna Declaration of the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights. The authors discuss how the issue of domestic violence is addressed in the Vienna Declaration. They assert that the "outsider" view of human rights is found in mainstream theory and discussion about women and human rights by those who have not actually experienced the oppression.

Noting that in the growing discourse on domestic implementation national-level courts are reduced to simple enforcers of international law, this Article explores the interpretive trends and theoretical possibilities of using international law in judicial reasoning. Using the Canadian case of Baker as an illustration, the author explores the traditional model of international law in domestic courts, which focuses on bindingness and all-or-nothing application, and transjudicialism, in which the authority of international law is persuasive rather than binding.