Compulsory Reading
Alston, Philip, “The Populist Challenge to Human Rights”, Journal of Human Rights Practice 9(1) (2017), pp. 1–15 (15 pages).
Bantekas, Ilias & Oette, Lutz. International human rights law and practice, 2nd ed, Cambridge University Press 2016. Chapters 9, 10, 11, pp 399-483 (82 pp).
Beitz, Charles, “What Human Rights Mean”, (2003)
https://search.proquest.com/docview/210570572/fulltext/94C25E15445B4D5BPQ/1?accountid=14699
Bielefeldt, Heiner (2012), “Philosophical and Historical Foundations of Human Rights”, in Catarina Krause and Martin Scheinin, International Protection of Human Rights: A Textbook, 2nd, revised edition, ?bo Akademi, pp 3-18 (15 pp).
Besson, Samantha, “Sources of International Human Rights Law: How General is General International Law?”, in Samantha Besson and Jean d’Aspremont (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Sources of International Law (Oxford University Press, 2017), pp 837-870 (33 pages).
Buchanan, Allen, “Why International Legal Human Rights?” in Rowan Cruft, S. Matthew Liao, and Massimo Renzo (eds.), Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights, Oxford University Press, 2015: 244-262 (https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199688623.001.0001/acprof-9780199688623-chapter-14
Cardenas, Sonia, “National Human Rights Institutions and State Compliance”, in Ryan Goodman and Thomas Pegram (eds), Human Rights, State Compliance, and Social Change: Assessing National Human Rights Institutions (Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp 29-51 (23 pages).
Castellino, Joshua, “Application of International Standards of Human Rights Law at Domestic Level”, in Azizur Rahman Chowdhury and Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan (eds.), An Introduction to International Human Rights Law (Brill, 2010), pp. 237-254 (18 pp).
Cheeseman, Chloe, “Appendix: Harmonising the Jurisprudence of Regional and International Human Rights Bodies: A Literature Review”, in Carla M. Buckley, Alice Donald and Philip Leach (eds.), Towards Convergence in International Human Rights Law (Brill, 2017), pp. 595–627 (33 pages).
Cmiel, Kenneth, “The Recent History of Human Rights”, in Akira, Iriye et.al. (2012), The Human Rights Revolution: An International History, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 27-51 (25 pp).
Costello, Cathryn, The Human Rights of Migrants and Refugees in European Law (Oxford University Press, 2015), pp. 41- 62 (22 pages).
Ekern, Stener. "Towards a Mayan Theory of Human Rights: Sacred Equilibria and the Consequences of Disrespect". In Nordic Journal of Human Rights, 34:4 (2016), pp 272-288. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/18918131.2016.1248060
Ekern, Stener (2018): Between relations and rights: writing constitutions in Mayan Guatemala, The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, January 2018, pp 1-22. 22 pp. DOI: 10.1080/07329113.2018.1434724
Epp, Charles R., The Rights Revolution. Lawyers, Activists, and Supreme Courts in Comparative Perspective, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, (1998), ch 2-4, pp 11-70 (69 pp).
Fagan, Andrew: Human Rights and Cultural Diversity. Core Issues and Cases, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2017), ch 5, pp 127-162 (34 pp).
García-Godos, Jemima (2019) “Building trust through accountability: transitional justice in the search for peace”, in Cecilia M. Bailliet (ed.) Research Handbook on International Law and Peace, Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA, pp 401–423, https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788117470.00030
Hunt, Lynn, Inventing Human Rights, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2007, Introduction, pp 15-34, ch 3, 113-176 (82 pp).
?Janmyr, Maja, "Refugees and Peace", in Cecilia M. Bailliet (ed), Research Handbook on International Law and Peace, Edward Elgar Publishers (2019), pp 308-328 (21 pages).
Jones, Peris S. (2009), AIDS Treatment and Human Rights in Context, Palgrave Macmillan, chapter 1, “The Struggle to Access Treatment and Other Services in South Africa”, and 2, “Conceptualizing Human Rights and “Access” to Medication’, pp 25-72 (47 pages).
Moyn, Samuel, “Beyond the Human Rights Measurement Controversy”, Law and Contemporary Problems 81 (2018), pp. 121-137 (18 pages).
Rice, Kathleen, “Rights and responsibilities in rural South Africa: implications for gender, generation, and personhood”, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 23, 28-41, 2016 (13 pp).
Risse, Thomas, Stephen C. Ropp, and Kathryn Sikkink (eds), The Persistent Power of Human Rights. From Commitment to Compliance, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, ch 1-2, pp 3-42 (39pp).
Roberts Lyer, Kirsten, “National Human Rights Institutions”, in Gerd Oberleitner (ed.), International Human Rights Institutions, Tribunals, and Courts (Springer, 2018), pp. 292-313 (25 pages).
Se, Teruhisa and Rie Karatsu, “A conception of human rights based on Japanese culture: promoting cross-cultural debates”, Journal of Human Rights, vol. 3, no. 3 (2004): 269-289 (20 pp).
Sen, Amartya, “Elements of a Theory of Human Rights”, Philosophy & Public Affairs Vol. 32, No. 4 (Autumn, 2004), pp. 315-356, (42 pp)
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1088-4963.2004.00017.x?
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1475483042000224842 (E-book).
UN General Assembly Resolution A/RES/70/1, Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 21 October 2015 (35 pages)
Zyberi, Gentian, “The International Court of Justice and the Rights of Peoples and Minorities”, in Christian Tams and James Sloan (eds.), The Development of International Law by the International Court of Justice (Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 327-352 (25 pages).
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Recommended Reading
- Case of Chahal v. United Kingdom
- Lovelace v. Canada
Sim, May, “A Confucian Approach to Human Rights”, in History and Philosophy Quarterly, Vol. 21 (4), October 2004, pp 337-356 (19 pp). http://www.jstor.org/stable/27745000?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents