New Books in Human Rights

Stephen Vines, "Defying the Dragon: Hong Kong and the World’s Largest Dictatorship" (Hurst, 2021)

20 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What sequence of events led Hong Kong to lose its long-held status as a liberal enclave of China? What drove its population to rise up against its gov...

Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr., "Aid Imperium: United States Foreign Policy and Human Rights in Post-Cold War Southeast Asia" (U Michigan Press, 2021)

15 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The United States is the world's largest donor of foreign aid, and in this profound analysis, Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr. demonstrates the links...

Craig Jones, "The War Lawyers: The United States, Israel, and Juridical Warfare" (Oxford UP, 2020)

14 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Over the last 20 years the world's most advanced militaries have invited a small number of military legal professionals into the heart of their target...

Jade S. Sasser, "On Infertile Ground: Population Control and Women's Rights in the Era of Climate Change" (NYU Press, 2018)

13 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Since the turn of the millennium, American media, scientists, and environmental activists have insisted that the global population crisis is “back”...

Kristy Nabhan-Warren, "Meatpacking America: How Migration, Work, and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland" (UNC Press, 2021)

13 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Whether valorized as the heartland or derided as flyover country, the Midwest became instantly notorious when COVID-19 infections skyrocketed among wo...

James Shires, "The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East" (Hurst, 2021)

09 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How has “cybersecurity” become a catch-all for everything that touches our digital world? In his new book, The Politics of Cybersecurity in the M...

Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard, "Reagan, Congress, and Human Rights: Contesting Morality in US Foreign Policy" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

08 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Reagan, Congress, and Human Rights: Contesting Morality in US Foreign Policy (Cambridge UP, 2020) traces the role of human rights concerns in US fore...

Jeffrey S. Bachman, "Cultural Genocide: Law, Politics, and Global Manifestations" (Routledge, 2019)

03 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jeffrey Bachman's edited volume Cultural Genocide: Law, Politics, and Global Manifestations (Routledge, 2019) asks where the boundaries between gen...

Saskia E. Wieringa and Nursyahbani Katjasungkana, "Propaganda and the Genocide in Indonesia" (Routledge, 2018)

03 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Several months ago, Saskia Wieringa joined her co-authors Jess Melvin and Annie Pohlman on the show to talk about their edited volume The Internation...

Jan Nisbet and Nancy Weiss, "Pain and Shock in America: Politics, Advocacy, and the Controversial Treatment of People with Disabilities" (Brandeis UP, 2021)

02 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Amid a string of fall 2021 news reports about past-due exonerations and (white) self-defense that document the limits of racial justice within the U.S...

Nishant Shahani, "Pink Revolutions: Globalization, Hindutva, and Queer Triangles in Contemporary India" (Northwestern UP, 2021)

30 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Pink Revolutions: Globalization, Hindutva, and Queer Triangles in Contemporary India (Northwestern UP, 2021) describes how queer politics in India oc...

Rana M. Jaleel, "The Work of Rape" (Duke UP, 2021)

24 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In The Work of Rape (Duke UP, 2021), Rana M. Jaleel argues that the redefinition of sexual violence within international law as a war crime, crime a...

Jessie Barton-Hronešová, "The Struggle for Redress: Victim Capital in Bosnia and Herzegovina" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)

24 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Jessie Barton Hronešová’s new book, The Struggle of Redress: Victim Capital in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), she explor...

Tessa Bridal, "The Dark Side of Memory: Uruguay's Disappeared Children and the Families Who Never Stopped Searching" (Invisible Ink, 2021)

24 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

I sat down with award winning author Tessa Bridal to talk about her latest book, The Dark Side of Memory: Uruguay's Disappeared Children and the Fa...

Theresa Keeley, "Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns: The Catholic Conflict Over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central America" (Cornell UP, 2020)

09 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns: The Catholic Conflict Over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central America (Cornell UP, 2020), Theresa Keeley analyzes ...

Anna Saunders et al., "Revolutions in International Law: The Legacies of 1917" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

09 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In 1917, the adoption of the revolutionary Mexican Constitution and the October Revolution shook the foundations of international order in profound, u...

Don F. Selby, "Human Rights in Thailand" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)

09 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Don F. Selby’s Human Rights in Thailand (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018) is a rich anthropological study of the emergence of human rights in Thailand ...

Luke Clements, "Clustered Injustice and The Level Green" (Legal Action Group, 2020)

08 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Clustered Injustice and The Level Green (Legal Action Group, 2020), Professor Luke Clements tackles the problem of the way in which "our legal...

Joseph P. Feldman, "Memories Before the State: Postwar Peru and the Place of Memory, Tolerance, and Social Inclusion" (Rutgers UP, 2021)

08 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the New Books in Latin America Podcast, Kenneth Sánchez talked to Joe Feldman about his wonderful book Memories before the State:...

Zakiya Luna, "Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice" (NYU Press, 2020)

05 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How did reproductive justice—defined as the right to have children, to not have children, and to parent—become recognized as a human rights issue?...

Caitlin Ring Carlson, "Hate Speech" (MIT Press, 2021)

29 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hate speech can happen anywhere - in Charlottesville, Virginia, where young men in khakis shouted, "Jews will not replace us"; in Myanmar, where the ...

Dilek Kurban, "Limits of Supranational Justice: The European Court of Human Rights and Turkey's Kurdish Conflict" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

28 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dilek Kurban’s Limits of Supranational Justice: The European Court of Human Rights and Turkey's Kurdish Conflict (Cambridge UP, 2020) considers t...

Christine Schwöbel-Patel, "Marketing Global Justice: The Political Economy of International Criminal Law" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

26 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Christine Schwöbel-Patel's Marketing Global Justice: The Political Economy of International Criminal Law (Cambridge UP, 2021) is a critical study o...

Anna Spain Bradley, "Human Choice in International Law" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

25 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Anna Spain Bradley "wrote this book to be accessible to anyone, because international law is for everyone." In this important book, Profess...

Onora O’Neill, “Kant, Applied” (Open Agenda, 2021)

15 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Kant, Applied is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Onora O’Neill, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the Universi...

Ivor Sokolić, "International Courts and Mass Atrocity: Narratives of War and Justice in Croatia" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)

15 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In his new book International Courts and Mass atrocity: Narratives of War and Justice in Croatia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) Ivor Sokolić explores t...

From Animal Rights to Human Rights: Supporting Sustainable Farming Practices to Improve Livelihoods

14 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In September-October 2021, SSEAC Stories will be hosting a mini-series of podcasts exploring the role that research plays in understanding and advoc...

John Cox, et al., "Denial: The Final Stage of Genocide?" (Routledge, 2021)

12 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Genocide denial not only abuses history and insults the victims but paves the way for future atrocities. Yet few, if any, books have offered a compara...

J.C. Salyer, "Court of Injustice: Law Without Recognition in U.S. Immigration" (Stanford UP, 2020)

08 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

J.C. Salyer’s Court of Injustice: Law Without Recognition in U.S. Immigration (Stanford UP, 2020) is an important look at the histories and proce...

Linda Steele, "Disability, Criminal Justice and Law: Reconsidering Court Diversion" (Routledge, 2020)

28 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

With a focus on the court diversion of disabled people, Disability, Criminal Justice and Law: Reconsidering Court Diversion (Routledge 2020) undert...

Preserving Local Languages to Protect Cultural and Environmental Rights in Laos

16 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In September-October 2021, SSEAC Stories will be hosting a mini-series of podcasts exploring the role that research plays in understanding and advoc...

Emilie Hafner-Burton, “Improving Human Rights” (Open Agenda, 2021)

03 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Improving Human Rights is based on an in-depth, filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Emilie Hafner-Burton, the John D. and Catherine T. MacAr...

Tímea Drinóczi and Agnieszka Bień-Kacała, "Illiberal Constitutionalism in Poland and Hungary" (Routledge, 2021)

03 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Over the past decade, Poland and Hungary have become laboratories for a new kind of government: proto-authoritarian regimes that still have regular el...

Elaine Pearson: Grappling with the intersections of academia, advocacy and activism

02 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

For the next four weeks, SSEAC Stories will be hosting a mini-series of podcasts exploring the role that research plays in understanding and advocat...

Roy Richard Grinker, "Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness" (Norton, 2021)

01 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Stigma about mental illness makes life doubly hard for people suffering from mental or emotional distress. In addition to dealing with their condition...

Scott Veitch, "Obligations: New Trajectories in Law" (Routledge, 2021)

31 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Obligations: New Trajectories in Law (Routledge, 2021) critically analyses the role that obligations play in law and social ordering. As rights have...

Gregory Bourke, "Gay, Catholic, and American: My Legal Battle for Marriage Equality and Inclusion" (U Notre Dame Press, 2021)

27 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Catholic Greg Bourke's profoundly moving memoir about growing up gay and overcoming discrimination in the battle for same-sex marriage in the US. In t...

Ken Starr, "Religious Liberty in Crisis: Exercising Your Faith in an Age of Uncertainty" (Encounter, 2021)

23 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

“Religious liberty” is a phrase that we often hear, particularly in news stories revolving around Supreme Court decisions. But what is religious...

Camillia Kong, "Mental Capacity in Relationship: Decision-Making, Dialogue, and Autonomy" (Cambridge UP, 2017)

16 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Mental Capacity in Relationship: Decision-Making, Dialogue, and Autonomy (Cambridge University Press, 2017), challenges the current legal landscape ...

Katy Faust and Stacy Manning, "Them Before Us: Why We Need a Global Children’s Rights Movement" (Post Hill Press, 2021)

13 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Children have the right to be raised by both their mother and father. That used to be a noncontroversial idea. But no longer. In their eye-opening 202...

Kanika Batra, "Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities: Publics, Counterpublics, Human Rights" (Routledge, 2021)

05 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities: Publics, Counterpublics, Human Rights (Routledge, 2021) demonstrates how late twentieth century postcolonial print...

Lani Watson, "The Right to Know: Epistemic Rights and Why We Need Them" (Routledge, 2021)

02 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We often talk as if individuals have entitlements to certain kinds of information: medical test results, political representatives’ voting records, ...

Francis Wade, "Myanmar's Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim 'Other'" (Zed Books, 2017)

28 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In 2017, Myanmar's military launched a campaign of widespread targeted violence against its Rohingya minority. The horrific atrocities was later descr...

Sinja Graf, "The Humanity of Universal Crime: Inclusion, Inequality, and Intervention in International Political Thought" (Oxford UP, 2021)

01 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We often hear or read the phrase “crimes against humanity” when we learn about the Holocaust, or genocide in places like Rwanda or Serbia. And jus...

Heather Douglas, "Women, Intimate Partner Violence, and the Law" (Oxford UP, 2021)

01 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Every year, millions of women turn to law to help them escape intimate partner violence. The legal processes are complex and varied, often enmeshing w...

Megan Carney, "Island of Hope: Migration and Solidarity in the Mediterranean" ( U of California Press, 2021)

15 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

With thousands of migrants attempting the perilous maritime journey from North Africa to Europe each year, transnational migration is a defining featu...

Photography and Human Rights in Thailand: A Discussion with Karin Zackari

11 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What do startling photographic images of state violence from events such as the 6 October 1976 massacre at Thammasat University tell us about the natu...

C. Kong and A. Ruck Keene, "Overcoming Challenges in the Mental Capacity Act 2005" (Jessica Kingsley, 2018)

10 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Overcoming Challenges in the Mental Capacity Act 2005: Practical Guidance for Working with Complex Issues (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2019) both d...

George Szmukler, "Men in White Coats: Treatment Under Coercion" (Oxford UP, 2017)

09 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The laws that govern psychiatric treatment under coercion have remain largely unchanged since the eighteenth century. But this is not because of their...

Lamis Elmy Abdelaaty, "Discrimination and Delegation: Explaining State Responses to Refugees" (Oxford UP, 2021)

07 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

States face choices when people forced to leave their states due to persecution or violence seek refuge. They may assert their sovereignty by either g...

Cary Nelson, "Not in Kansas Anymore: Academic Freedom in Palestinian Universities" (AEN, 2021)

25 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

“Allying with a Hamas cell (on a Palestinian university campus) is not the same as joining the College Republicans at the University of Kansas...in ...

Ned Richardson-Little, "The Human Rights Dictatorship: Socialism, Global Solidarity and Revolution in East Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

21 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In The Human Rights Dictatorship: Socialism, Global Solidarity and Revolution in East Germany (Cambridge UP, 2020), Ned Richardson-Little exposes t...

David R. Boyd, "The Rights of Nature: A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World" (ECW Press, 2017)

18 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Palila v Hawaii. New Zealand’s Te Urewera Act. Sierra Club v Disney. These legal phrases hardly sound like the makings of a revolution, but beyond...

Andrew T. Walker, "Liberty for All: Defending Everyone's Religious Freedom in a Pluralistic Age" (Brazos Press, 2021)

13 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Christians are often thought of as defending only their own religious interests in the public square. They are viewed as worrying exclusively about th...

Lisa Waddington and Anna Lawson, "The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Practice" (Oxford UP, 2018)

12 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Practice: A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Courts (Oxford UP, 2018) brings toge...

Poulami Roychowdhury, "Capable Women, Incapable States: Negotiating Violence and Rights in India" (Oxford UP, 2020)

11 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How do women claim rights against violence in India and with what consequences? By observing how survivors navigate the Indian criminal justice system...

Jillian C. York, "Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism" (Verso Book, 2021)

06 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What is the impact of surveillance capitalism on our right to free speech? The Internet once promised to be a place of extraordinary freedom beyond th...

Alexandra Kemmerer, "Human Dignity in Context" (Nomos/Hart, 2018)

12 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Human dignity is the key term that the Universal Declaration on Human Rights placed at the center of legal discourse on a global level. In 1949, Germa...

Thomas David Parker, "Avoiding the Terrorist Trap: Why Respect for Human Rights is the Key to Defeating Terrorism" (World Scientific, 2019)

02 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Faced with a major terrorist threat, states seem to reach instinctively for the most coercive tools in their arsenal and, in doing so, risk exacerbati...

Mary Ann Cherry, "Morris Kight: Humanist, Liberationist, Fantabulist: A Story of Gay Rights and Gay Wrongs" (Process, 2020)

31 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How did the gay movement, which began as a sedate group of intellectuals, become what is arguably the most dynamic civil rights crusade in America? Ho...

Roy Richard Grinker, "Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness" (Norton, 2021)

30 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A compassionate and captivating examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigma. For centur...

Stuart Rees, "Cruelty or Humanity: Challenges, Opportunities and Responsibilities" (Policy Press, 2020)

30 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Stuart Rees's Cruelty or Humanity: Challenges, Opportunities and Responsibilities (Policy Press, a Bristol University Press imprint, 2020) exposes...

Liat Ben-Moshe, "Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)

12 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Prison abolition and decarceration are increasingly debated, but it is often without taking into account the largest exodus of people from carceral fa...

Edward A. David, "A Christian Approach to Corporate Religious Liberty" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)

12 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How does individual religious liberty apply to religiously affiliated groups? Edward A. David investigates the polarized ways legal theorists seek...

Melissa Moschella, "To Whom Do Children Belong?: Parental Rights, Civic Education, and Children's Autonomy" (Cambridge UP, 2016)

09 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Supreme Court’s decision in Bostock v. Clayton, which ruled that the Title VII prohibition on sex discrimination in employment extends to discri...

C. L. Estes and N. B. DiCarlo, "Aging A-Z: Concepts Toward Emancipatory Gerontology" (Routledge, 2019)

03 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It’s often said that the time in our lives can often pass without us noticing. Old age can come before we realize it, and it brings with it new elem...

Mona Lena Krook, "Violence Against Women in Politics" (Oxford UP, 2020)

18 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Mona Lena Krook examines the unique phenomena of violence against women in politics, which is distinct from the broader concern and issue of violence ...

Lynette J. Chua, "The Politics of Love in Myanmar: LGBT Mobilization and Human Rights as a Way of Life" (Stanford UP, 2018)

15 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Politics of Love in Myanmar: LGBT Mobilization and Human Rights as a Way of Life (Stanford UP, 2018) offers an intimate ethnographic account of a...

Emmanuel Kreike, "Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime Against Humanity and Nature" (Princeton UP, 2021)

25 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime Against Humanity and Nature (Princeton UP, 2021), Emmanuel Kreike offers a global history of env...

Matthew McManus, "A Critical Legal Examination of Liberalism and Liberal Rights" (Palgrave, 2020)

15 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The tradition of political liberalism has a long and complicated history, filled with twists, turns, critiques and responses that have filled books, e...

Christoph Menke, "Critique of Rights" (Polity, 2019)

13 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Christoph Menke, who is professor of philosophy at the Goethe University in Frankfurt Germany and considered the most important representative of the ...

Laura Hyun Yi Kang, "Traffic in Asian Women" (Duke UP, 2020)

07 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Can we ever overcome the epistemological barrier to conceptualizing Asian women not as particular cases but as theories, and can women of color aca...

Rajan Menon, "The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention" (Oxford UP, 2016)

06 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention (Oxford University Press, 2020), Rajan Menon shows that this belief, while noble, is naïve. He consider...

Michael Kagan, "The Battle to Stay in America: Immigration's Hidden Front Line" (U of Nevada Press, 2020)

04 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The debate over American immigration policy has obsessed politicians and disrupted the lives of millions of people for decades. In The Battle To Stay...

How to Use Your First Amendment Rights On Campus (and Off)

17 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to br...

Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, "Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)

17 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Twentieth-century neuroscience fixed the brain as the basis of consciousness, the self, identity, individuality, even life itself, obscuring the funda...

Bann Seng Tan, "International Aid and Democracy Promotion: Liberalization at the Margins" (Routledge, 2020)

14 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In International Aid and Democracy Promotion: Liberalization at the Margins (Routledge, 2020), Political Scientist Bann Seng Tan investigates the l...

Kimberley Brownlee, "Being Sure of Each Other: An Essay on Social Rights and Freedoms" (Oxford UP, 2020)

11 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Kimberley Brownlee, a professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia, has written a monograph addressing her argument in favor a right ...

Tabassum Fahim Ruby, "Muslim Women's Rights: Contesting Liberal-Secular Sensibilities in Canada" (Routledge, 2019)

27 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Muslim Women’s Rights: Contesting Liberal-Secular Sensibilities in Canada (Routledge 2019) By Tabassum Fahim Ruby follows the legal debates and pub...

Paulina O. Espejo, "On Borders: Territories, Legitimacy, and the Rights of Place" (Oxford UP, 2020)

20 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

When are borders justified? Who has a right to control them? Where should they be drawn? Today people think of borders as an island's shores. Just as ...

Michael C. Davis, "Making Hong Kong China: The Rollback of Human Rights and the Rule of Law" (Columbia UP, 2020)

19 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

“Imagine you live in a freewheeling city like New York or London – one of the world’s leading financial, educational, and cultural centres. Then...

Lindsay Farmer, "Making the Modern Criminal Law: Criminalization and Civil Order" (Oxford UP, 2016)

12 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In his latest book, Professor Lindsay Farmer offers a historical and conceptual analysis of theories of criminalization. The book shows how criminal...

Laura DeNardis, "The Internet in Everything: Freedom and Security in a World with No Off Switch" (Yale UP, 2020)

11 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Most people recognize that the internet is growing at an exponential rate. But few have thought as deeply as Laura DeNardis, a Professor and Interim D...

Jana K. Lipman, "In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Repatriates" (U California Press, 2020)

30 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Repatriates (University of California Press, 2020) is an in-depth study of the fate of the nearly 80...

William L. Saunders, "Unborn Human Life and Fundamental Rights: Leading Constitutional Cases Under Scrutiny" (Peter Lang, 2019)

27 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What is “unborn human life” and what kind of court cases, not only in the US but abroad, illuminate the matter from the standpoint of the many fie...

Barbara Keys, "The Ideals of Global Sport: From Peace to Human Rights" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)

16 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today we are joined by Barbara Keys, Professor of US and International History at Durham University, and author and editor of The Ideals of Global Spo...

C. Chan and F. de Londras, "China’s National Security: Endangering Hong Kong’s Rule of Law?" (Hart, 2020)

15 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

On July 1, 2020, China introduced a National Security Law into Hong Kong partly in an attempt to quell months of civil unrest, as a mechanism to safeg...

Ernest Freeberg, "A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement" (Basic Books, 2020)

13 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In Gilded Age America, people and animals lived cheek-by-jowl in environments that were dirty and dangerous to man and animal alike. The industrial ci...

Jill Richards, "The Fury Archives: Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes" (Columbia UP, 2020)

08 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In The Fury Archives: Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes (Columbia UP 2020), Jill Richards radically rewrites our un...

Lea David, "The Past Can't Heal Us: The Dangers of Mandating Memory in the Name of Human Rights" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

02 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In The Past Can't Heal Us: The Dangers of Mandating Memory in the Name of Human Rights (Cambridge UP, 2020), Lea David critically investigates the rel...

Serena Parekh, "No Refuge: Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis" (Oxford UP, 2020)

01 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Discourse in wealthy Western countries about refugees tends to follow a familiar script. How many refugees is a country morally required to accept? ...

Michele Goodwin, "Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

30 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood (Cambridge University Press, 2020) a brilliant but shocking account of the cr...

Jonathan Robinson, "Rights at the Margins: Historical, Legal and Philosophical Perspectives" (Brill, 2020)

18 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The essays in Rights at the Margins: Historical, Legal and Philosophical Perspectives (Brill) explore the ways rights were available to those in the m...

Jean Jackson, "Managing Multiculturalism: Indigeneity and the Struggle for Rights in Colombia" (Stanford UP, 2019)

16 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In Managing Multiculturalism: Indigeneity and the Struggle for Rights in Colombia (Stanford University Press) Jean Jackson narrates her remarkable jo...

Nadine Strossen, “Hate: Why We Should Resist it With Free Speech, Not Censorship” (Oxford UP, 2020)

16 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The updated paperback edition of Hate: Why We Should Resist it With Free Speech, Not Censorship (Oxford University Press) dispels misunderstandings pl...

Kathryn Sikkink, "The Hidden Face of Rights: Toward a Politics of Responsibilities" (Yale UP, 2020)

16 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In her latest book, The Hidden Face of Rights: Toward a Politics of Responsibilities (Yale University Press), Kathryn Sikkink puts forward a framework...

Jessica Whyte, "Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism" (Verso, 2019)

08 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Drawing on detailed archival research on the parallel histories of human rights and neoliberalism, in Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise ...

Dan Edelstein, "On the Spirit of Rights" (U Chicago Press, 2018)

28 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

By the end of the eighteenth century, politicians in America and France were invoking the natural rights of man to wrest sovereignty away from kings a...

Julia Rose Kraut, "Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States" (Harvard UP, 2020)

17 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

How does the United States use immigration to suppress free speech? Should interests of “national security” take priority over individual libertie...

Andreas Fulda, "The Struggle for Democracy in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong" (Routledge, 2020)

17 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The key question in The Struggle for Democracy in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong: Sharp Power and its Discontents (Routledge, 2020), is to what...