Jamie Mayerfeld

About

Jamie Mayerfeld is a Professor and Chair of Law, Societies & Justice, as well as a Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington. He specializes in political theory and human rights, and is a faculty associate of the Center for Human Rights and an associate faculty member of the Program on Ethics. Mayerfeld holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Princeton University, earned in 1992. His scholarly work includes the book The Promise of Human Rights: Constitutional Government, Democratic Legitimacy, and International Law, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2016, in which he develops an account of constitutional democracy as a cooperative project involving domestic and international guardians to enhance human rights protection. His research interests encompass comparative law, ethics, global and transnational studies, human rights, justice, and philosophy. Mayerfeld has contributed to the fields through various publications and courses, and has served as president of the Western Political Science Association. He is actively involved in initiatives such as co-coordinating Political Scientists for Sustainability.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Computer Science
• Computer Security
• Law and economics
• Law
• Social psychology
• History
• Psychology
• Criminology

Selected publications

• The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era

  Perspectives on Politics · 2006-05-18 · 45 citations

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  The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era. By Micheline R. Ishay. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. 459p. $24.95. Are human rights universal or culturally bounded? From what religious or philosophical premises are they derived? Do they conflict? Do they empower or instead disempower the weak and oppressed? What is their fate in an era of globalization? The key to answering these questions may lie more in historical than conceptual investigation. This…

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• In defense of the absolute prohibition of torture

  Public Affairs Quarterly · 2008-01-01 · 18 citations

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• The Democratic Legitimacy of International Human Rights Law

  Indiana international & comparative law review · 2009-01-01 · 12 citations

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• The Promise of Human Rights: Constitutional Government, Democratic Legitimacy, and International Law

  2016-04-15 · 6 citations

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  International human rights law is often criticized as an infringement of constitutional democracy. In The Promise of Human Rights, Jamie Mayerfeld argues to the contrary that international human rights law provides a necessary extension of checks and balances and therefore completes the domestic constitutional order. In today's world, constitutional democracy is best understood as a cooperative project enlisting both domestic and international guardians to strengthen the protection of human righ…

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• Ending Impunity

  Ethics & International Affairs · 2006-09-01 · 4 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Brooke A. Ackerly

  1 shared

• Charles R. Beitz

  Princeton University

  1 shared

• Jack Donnelly

  University of Denver

  1 shared

• Henry Shue

  1 shared

• Kok‐Chor Tan

  1 shared

Labs

• Law, Societies & JusticePI

Awards & honors

• Husky Sustainability Award honorable mention, University of…

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