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International Law and Human Rights (Fall 2016)
Resource 1 . 1 . 4
15 minutes

Human Rights Committee: Ms. Yekaterina Pavlovna Lantsova v. The Russian Federation, Communication No. 763/1997

Samuel Moyn

Again, your main inquiry in reading this case is to think about what the scope of the right to life is, and more generally what a right is - how do we think about its content and what effects invoking seem to have.

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