Gráinne de Búrca is Florence Ellinwood Allen Professor of Law at NYU. Previously, she held tenured posts at Harvard Law School, Fordham Law School, the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and Oxford University. Her fields of research are European Union law and international human rights law. She is co-editor of the Oxford University Press series Oxford Studies in European Law, and co-author of the leading OUP textbook EU Law. She is co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON) and serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of International Law, Global Constitutionalism and Legal Studies. She was a President of the International Society of Public Law ICON-S from 2015-2018, and is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.

In this refreshing and inspirational book, Gráinne de Búrca directly confronts human rights sceptics among scholars from across the political spectrum to demonstrate that, in practice, human rights have maintained an extraordinary vigour in motivating and supporting grassroots mobilization against political repression and illiberalism. With her well-known skill in developing powerful and innovative arguments, she builds on the actual practice of human rights activists to illuminate the dynamism of the human rights project, activated and shaped through both its moral appeal, and the meaning and impact given to it by affected groups.

• Introduction 1: The Effectiveness of Human Rights 2: Mobilization for Gender Equality in Pakistan and the Role of International Human Rights 3: The Activation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Argentina 4: Using International Human Rights Law to Mobilize for Children's Rights and Reproductive Rights in Ireland 5: The Past and Future of Human Rights

Gráinne de Búrca is Florence Ellinwood Allen Professor of Law at NYU. Previously, she held tenured posts at Harvard Law School, Fordham Law School, the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and Oxford University. Her fields of research are European Union law and international human rights law. She is co-editor of the Oxford University Press series Oxford Studies in European Law, and co-author of the leading OUP textbook EU Law. She is co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON) and serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of International Law, Global Constitutionalism and Legal Studies. She was a President of the International Society of Public Law ICON-S from 2015-2018, and is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.

In this refreshing and inspirational book, Gráinne de Búrca directly confronts human rights sceptics among scholars from across the political spectrum to demonstrate that, in practice, human rights have maintained an extraordinary vigour in motivating and supporting grassroots mobilization against political repression and illiberalism. With her well-known skill in developing powerful and innovative arguments, she builds on the actual practice of human rights activists to illuminate the dynamism of the human rights project, activated and shaped through both its moral appeal, and the meaning and impact given to it by affected groups.

• Introduction 1: The Effectiveness of Human Rights 2: Mobilization for Gender Equality in Pakistan and the Role of International Human Rights 3: The Activation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Argentina 4: Using International Human Rights Law to Mobilize for Children's Rights and Reproductive Rights in Ireland 5: The Past and Future of Human Rights

Gráinne de Búrca is Florence Ellinwood Allen Professor of Law at NYU. Previously, she held tenured posts at Harvard Law School, Fordham Law School, the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and Oxford University. Her fields of research are European Union law and international human rights law. She is co-editor of the Oxford University Press series Oxford Studies in European Law, and co-author of the leading OUP textbook EU Law. She is co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON) and serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of International Law, Global Constitutionalism and Legal Studies. She was a President of the International Society of Public Law ICON-S from 2015-2018, and is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.

In this refreshing and inspirational book, Gráinne de Búrca directly confronts human rights sceptics among scholars from across the political spectrum to demonstrate that, in practice, human rights have maintained an extraordinary vigour in motivating and supporting grassroots mobilization against political repression and illiberalism. With her well-known skill in developing powerful and innovative arguments, she builds on the actual practice of human rights activists to illuminate the dynamism of the human rights project, activated and shaped through both its moral appeal, and the meaning and impact given to it by affected groups.

• Introduction 1: The Effectiveness of Human Rights 2: Mobilization for Gender Equality in Pakistan and the Role of International Human Rights 3: The Activation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Argentina 4: Using International Human Rights Law to Mobilize for Children's Rights and Reproductive Rights in Ireland 5: The Past and Future of Human Rights