Women, the Koran and International Human Rights Law: The Experience of Pakistan (review) (original) (raw)

Human Rights Quarterly, 2009

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journey. Particularly interesting would be further works building on this excellent book by Dudziak and further exploring the vexed tension in Marshall’s vision for the use of the law to transform Kenya and the limitations of rights discourse generally as an instrument of social transformation. Was Marshall right in insisting on a narrow reading of the rule of law even in deeply distorted societies? Should there be a boiler plate normative cure for the protection of minorities no matter the context as Marshall seemed to believe? These and other questions remain unanswered in Dudziak’s book. Yet it provokes them and unwittingly demands that answers be given. What is not in doubt, however, is the fact that Exporting American Dreams has established an inescapable bar that others must meet. Dudziak’s intellectual courage and boldness—going where others had not gone before—is inspiring and deeply welcome by those who seek to understand the breadth of Marshall’s passion for justice. His was a life lived in a rotund pursuit of justice through the rule of law. Even though there are obvious limitations to a quest for justice framed in those confines, no one can deny Marshalls’ profound impact on civil rights in the United States and his influence on Kenyatta, Mboya, and the emergent Kenyan state. Dudziak has weaved a classic tale that intertwines this gripping narrative in the hopeful diction of a thinker who seeks universal justice. Her book is a truly magnificent contribution to understanding Marshall, one of the towering figures of the twentieth century.

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