Wayne Sandholtz, USC

Wayne Sandholtz

John A. McCone Chair in International Relations

Professor of International Relations and Law

Research areas:  International norms, international law, international courts, human rights

Sandholtz CV

Selected Articles & Chapters

Sandholtz, Wayne. 2024. “Integration, Supranational Authority, and Human Rights.” 2024. Journal of European Public Policy 31(10): 3465-3485.

Shaffer, Gregory and Wayne Sandholtz. 2024. “The Rule of Law Under Pressure: A Transnational Perspective.” Hague Journal on the Rule of Law 16(2): 393-438.

Mulesky, Suzie, Wayne Sandholtz and Kelebogile Zvobgo. 2024. “Do Human Rights Treaty Obligations Matter for Ratification?” Journal of Human Rights 23(1): 1-18.

Stone Sweet, Alec and Wayne Sandholtz. 2023. “The Law and Politics of Transnational Rights Protection: Trusteeship, Effectiveness, De-delegation.” Governance 36(1): 105-124.

Sandholtz, Wayne. 2023. “Resurgent Authoritarianism, Rights, and Legal Change.” In Nico Krisch and Ezgi Yildiz, eds., The Many Paths of Change in International Law. 179-200. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Shaffer, Gregory and Wayne Sandholtz. 2023. “The Rule of Law in Transnational Context: Introduction to the Symposium.” UC Irvine Journal of International, Transnational, and Comparative Law 8(1): 1-4.

Sandholtz, Wayne. 2023. “Is Winter Coming? Norm Challenges and Norm Resilience.” In Heike Krieger and Andrea Liese, eds., Tracing Value Change in the International Legal Order. 41-63. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Sandholtz, Wayne. 2023. “Resurgent Authoritarianism and the International Rule of Law.” Southwestern Journal of International Law 28(2): 209-231.

Percy, Sarah V. and Wayne Sandholtz. 2022. “Why Norms Rarely Die.” European Journal of International Relations 28(4): 934-54.

Sandholtz, Wayne. 2022. “Authoritarianism, International Human Rights, and Legal Change.” In David L. Sloss, ed., Is the International Legal Order Unraveling? 363-96. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Stone Sweet, Alec, Wayne Sandholtz and Mads Andenas. 2022. “The Failure to Destroy the Authority of the European Court of Human Rights: 2010-2018.” The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals 21: 244-77.

Gonzalez Ocantos, Ezequiel and Wayne Sandholtz. 2022. “The Sources of Resilience of International Human Rights Courts: The Case of the Inter-American System.” Law & Social Inquiry 47(1): 95-131.

Lentzos, Filippa, Edward P. Rybicki, Margret Engelhard, Pauline Paterson, Wayne Sandholtz and R. Guy Reeves. 2022. “Eroding Norms Over Release of Self-Spreading Viruses.” Science 375 (No. 6576, 7 January 2022): 31-33.

Stone Sweet, Alec, Wayne Sandholtz and Mads Andenas. 2021. “Dissenting Opinions and Rights Protection in the European Court.” European Journal of International Law 32(3): 897-906.

Gonzalez Ocantos, Ezequiel and Wayne Sandholtz. 2021. “Constructing a Regional Human Rights Legal Order: The Inter-American Court, National Courts, and Judicial Dialogue, 1988 – 2014.” International Journal of Constitutional Law (I-CON) 19(5): 1559-1596.

Sandholtz, Wayne. 2021. “Human Rights Courts and Global Constitutionalism: Coordination through Judicial Dialogue.” Global Constitutionalism 10:3 439-64.

Sandholtz, Wayne. 2020. “The ECtHR, Transregional Dialogues and Global Constitutionalism.” Global Constitutionalism 9(3): 543-551.

Zvobgo, Kelebogile, Wayne Sandholtz and Suzie Mulesky. 2020. “Reserving Rights: Explaining Human Rights Treaty Reservations.” International Studies Quarterly 64(4): 785-97.

Sandholtz, Wayne and Mariana Rangel Padilla. 2020. “Law and Politics in the Inter-American System: The Amnesty Cases.” Journal of Law and Courts.

Neumeier, Stefanie and Wayne Sandholtz. 2019. “The Transnational Legal Ordering of the Death Penalty.” Journal of International, Transnational, and Comparative Law 4:124-60.

Sloss, David and Wayne Sandholtz. 2019. “Universal Human Rights and Constitutional Change.” William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 27(4): 1183-1262.

Sandholtz, Wayne. 2019. “Norm Contestation, Robustness, and Replacement.” Journal of Global Security Studies 4(1); 139-46.

Sandholtz, Wayne and Adam Feldman. 2019. “The Trans-regional Construction of Human Rights.” In Alison Brysk and Michael Stohl, eds., Contesting Human Rights. Edward Elgar. 107-24.

Sandholtz, Wayne, Yining Bei, and Kayla Caldwell. “Backlash and International Human Rights Courts.” 2018. In Alison Brysk and Michael Stohl, eds., Contracting Human Rights. Edward Elgar. 159-78.

Sandholtz, Wayne. 2017. “Domestic Law and Human Rights Treaty Commitments: The Convention against Torture.”  Journal of Human Rights 16(1): 25-43.

Sandholtz, Wayne. 2017. “Expanding Rights: Norm Innovation in the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights.” In Alison Brysk, ed., Expanding Human Rights: 21^st Century Norms and Governance. Edward Elgar. 156–76.

Sandholtz, Wayne. 2015. “How Domestic Courts Use International Law.” Fordham International Law Journal 38(2): 595 – 637.