The sway of audit culture over the field of international human rights law is clear to those familiar with human rights reports and indicators. In his 2019 I•CON Best Paper Prize-winning article, David McGrogan argues that the reason for that controlling influence is found in ineluctable characteristics of the international human rights system. As for its main consequence, he argues that Foucault’s idea of “governmentality” enables us to see that it is the “diametrically opposite effect” to the construction of a homo juridicus. In this short response, I will confine myself to a critical appraisal of the Foucauldian argument for the latter claim.

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将人权文化审计为“治理性”？

对于熟悉人权报告和指标的人来说，审计文化在国际人权法领域的影响是显而易见的。在其 2019 年 I•CON 最佳论文奖获奖文章中，David McGrogan 认为，这种控制性影响的原因在于国际人权体系的不可避免的特征。至于其主要后果，他认为福柯的“治理性”思想使我们看到，它与法律人的建构是“截然相反的效果”。在这篇简短的回应中，我将限制自己对福柯对后一种主张的论证进行批判性评价。