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iiclr-17599	Mayerfeld, Jamie	The Democratic Legitimacy of International Human Rights Law	2009	40	.pdf	application/pdf	20653	1219	55	This Article confines its attention to human rights law and does not address the democratic credentials of international law in general.43 PART I: HUMAN RIGHTS There is a rich contemporary literature on the meaning and justification of human rights. Human rights law is reinforced by the rich tradition of international humanitarian law, whose sources include the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials following World War HI, the 1948 Genocide Convention, the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their Protocols (1977), the war crimes tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (1998).	cache/iiclr-17599.pdf	txt/iiclr-17599.txt