New Books in Human Rights
Episodes
Regina M. Paulose, "People’s Tribunals, Human Rights and the Law" (Routledge, 2020)
26 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
People’s Tribunals, Human Rights and the Law (Routledge, 2020) gives a vital introduction to an essential but overlooked topic; the rise of People’...
Robert T. Chase, "We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners’ Rights in Postwar America" (UNC Press, 2020)
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Siobhan talks with Robert T. Chase about his book, We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners’ Rights in Postw...
Laura A. Dean, "Diffusing Human Trafficking Policy in Eurasia" (Policy Press, 2020)
23 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Laura A. Dean (Assistant Professor of Political Science at Millikin University and director of the Human Trafficking Research Lab) has spent many year...
Mona L. Siegel, "Peace on Our Terms: The Global Battle for Women’s Rights After the First World" (Columbia UP, 2020)
15 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We are all familiar with the story of how in early 1919 heads of state and diplomats from around the world came to Paris to negotiate a peace settleme...
Lauren Turek, "To Bring the Good News to All Nations" (Cornell UP, 2020)
09 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lauren Turek is an Assistant Professor of History at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. She earned her doctorate from the University of Virgini...
Arlie Loughnan, "Self, Others and the State: Relations of Criminal Responsibility" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
03 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Criminal responsibility is a key-organizing concept of the criminal law, but Arlie Loughnan argues that it needs re-examination. Focusing on the Austr...
Courtney J. Fung, "China and Intervention at the UN Security Council: Reconciling Status" (Oxford UP, 2019)
19 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
China is a veto-holding member of the UN Security Council yet Chinese officials have been skeptical of using the powers of the UN to pressure nations ...
Antony Dapiran, "City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong" (Scribe, 2020)
07 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hong Kong in 2019 was a city on fire. Anti-government protests, sparked by an ill-fated extradition bill sparked seven months of protest and civil unr...
M. R. Michelson and B. F. Harrison, "Transforming Prejudice: Identity, Fear, and Transgender Rights" (Oxford UP, 2020)
04 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Since the mid-1990s, there has been a seismic shift in attitudes toward gay and lesbian people, with a majority of Americans now supporting same-sex m...
Adam J. MacLeod, "The Age of Selfies: Reasoning About Rights When the Stakes Are Personal" (Rowland and Littlefield, 2020)
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Incivility in our public discourse is limiting our ability to get things done as a nation and preventing us from expressing ourselves in workplaces an...
María Cristina García, "The Refugee Challenge in Post-Cold War America" (Oxford UP, 2017)
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Never again!” This was the rallying cry, seemingly universal and unanimous, among liberal nation-states as they formed the United Nations (UN) in...
Yue Hou, "The Private Sector in Public Office: Selective Property Rights in China" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In China, roughly 60% of GDP and 80% of employment comes from the private sector – yet half of private entrepreneurs report that they faced expropri...
Nicola Lacey, "In Search of Criminal Responsibility: Ideas, Interests, and Institutions" (Oxford UP, 2016)
20 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In her latest book, In Search of Criminal Responsibility: Ideas, Interests, and Institutions (Oxford University Press, 2016), Nicola Lacey brings toge...
Oliver Kaplan, "Resisting War: How Communities Protect Themselves" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
07 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Reporters and scholars often focus on violence and victimization: “if it bleeds, it leads.” But unarmed civilians around the world often protect t...
Anna Arstein-Kerslake, "Restoring Voice to People with Cognitive Disabilities: Realizing the Right to Equal Recognition Before the Law" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
06 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The right to decision making is important for all people. It allows us to choose how to we our lives – both on a daily basis, and also in terms of h...
Jon Piccini, "Human Rights in Twentieth-Century Australia" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
03 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After the Second World War, an Australian diplomat was one of eight people to draft the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. And in the years that follow...
In the Aftermath of the Rohingya Genocide: Our Failure to Protect
31 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Despite the post-Holocaust UN convention to ensure the protection of minority communities globally, the International community has failed to notice t...
Jessica Lynne Pearson, "The Colonial Politics of Global Health: France and the United Nations in Postwar Africa" (Harvard UP, 2018)
15 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
International organizations throw up several obstacles—their immense scale, their dry bureaucratic language—to the historian trying to piece toget...
Stanley Fish, "The First: How to Think About Hate Speech" (One Signal, 2019)
30 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Stanley Fish is a well-known scholar regarding the First Amendment and free speech. In his latest book, The First: How to Think About Hate Speech, Cam...
Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, "Banned: Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump" (NYU Press, 2019)
30 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Immigration is one of the most complex issues of our time in the United States and around the world. Enforcing immigration law in the U.S. involves a ...
David Pettinicchio, "Politics of Empowerment: Disability Rights and the Cycle of American Policy Reform" (Stanford UP, 2019)
26 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
David Pettinicchio has written Politics of Empowerment: Disability Rights and the Cycle of American Policy Reform (Stanford University Press, 2019). H...
Sandra Fahy, "Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea’s Human Rights Abuses on the Record" (Columbia UP, 2019)
23 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“The things that are happening to North Korea are happening to all of us…they are part of the human community. To say that this is just a problem ...
Asma T. Uddin, "When Islam Is Not a Religion: Inside America’s Fight for Religious Freedom" (Pegasus Books, 2019)
16 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when a religion is demonized to such an extent that it is no longer deemed a religion – but an ideology? What effect does such a politi...
Henning Melber, "Dag Hammarskjöld, the United Nations, and the Decolonisation of Africa" (Hurst, 2019)
21 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dag Hammarskjold was such a dynamic secretary-general that for years, the motto about him was simply “Leave it to Dag.” Only the second person to ...
Eric D. Weitz, "A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States" (Princeton UP, 2019)
15 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Who has the right to have rights? Motivated by Hannah Arendt’s famous reflections on the question of statelessness the book tells a non-linear globa...
Mubbashir A. Rizvi, "The Ethics of Staying: Social Movements and Land Rights Politics in Pakistan" (Stanford UP, 2019)
06 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The military coup that brought General Pervez Musharraf to power as Pakistan's tenth president resulted in the abolition of a century-old sharecroppin...
Cyril Ghosh, "De-Moralizing Gay Rights: Some Queer Remarks on LGBT+ Rights Politics in the US" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
09 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In his book, De-Moralizing Gay Rights: Some Queer Remarks on LGBT+ Rights Politics in the US(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), Cyril Ghosh interrogates three...
Gabriela González, "Redeeming La Raza: Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectability and Rights" (Oxford UP, 2018)
29 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tiffany Jasmin González speaks with Dr. Gabriela González about her award-winning book, Redeeming La Raza: Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectabili...
Tyrell Haberkorn, "In Plain Sight: Impunity and Human Rights in Thailand" (U Wisconsin Press, 2018)
23 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the preface to In Plain Sight: Impunity and Human Rights in Thailand (University of Wisconsin Press, 2018) Tyrell Haberkorn asks, echoing Pakavadi ...
Katherine M. Marino, "Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement" (UNC Press, 2019)
14 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Katherine M. Marino is an assistant professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles. Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an Int...
Zachary Kramer, "Outsiders: Why Difference is the Future of Civil Rights" (Oxford UP, 2019)
27 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Outsiders: Why Difference is the Future of Civil Rights(Oxford University Press, 2019) by Zachary Kramer (Oxford University Press, 2019) sets forth an...
Heather R. White, "Reforming Sodom: Protestants and the Rise of Gay Rights" (UNC Press, 2015)
14 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
With a focus on mainline Protestants and gay rights activists in the twentieth century, Heather R. White challenges the usual picture of perennial adv...
Lindsey N. Kingston, "Fully Human: Personhood, Citizenship, and Rights" (Oxford UP, 2019)
08 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lindsey N. Kingston’s new book, Fully Human: Personhood, Citizenship, and Rights (Oxford University Press, 2019) interrogates the idea of citizenshi...
Mollie Gerver, "The Ethics and Practice of Refugee Repatriation" (U Edinburgh Press, 2018)
01 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Moral and political theorists have paid a healthy amount of attention to states’ rights to determine who may reside within their territory. Accordi...
Anthony Nownes, "Organizing for Transgender Rights: Collective Action, Group Development, and the Rise of a New Social Movement" (SUNY Press, 2019)
09 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hard won transgender rights have been under attack by the Trump administration. Officials across government have sought to overturn decisions made by ...
Dagmar Herzog, "Unlearning Eugenics: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe" (U Wisconsin Press, 2018)
25 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In her new book, Unlearning Eugenics: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe (University of Wisconsin Press, 2018), Dagmar Herzog...
Yael Ben-zvi, “Native Land Talk: Indigenous and Arrivant Rights Theories” (Dartmouth College Press, 2018)
15 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Histories of rights have too often marginalized Native Americans and African Americans. Addressing this lacuna, Native Land Talk: Indigenous and Arriv...
Sandra Fahy, “Marching Through Suffering: Loss and Survival in North Korea” (Columbia UP, 2015)
06 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Amidst an atmosphere of hope on the Korean Peninsula over the past year, questions over the wellbeing of North Korea’s population have again come to...
Mike Ananny, “Networked Press Freedom: Creating Infrastructures For a Public Right to Hear” (MIT Press, 2018)
05 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In Networked Press Freedom: Creating Infrastructures For a Public Right to Hear (MIT Press, 2018), journalism professor Mike Ananny provides a new fr...
Joel R. Pruce, “The Mass Appeal of Human Rights” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
03 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How can human rights campaigns function in consumer and celebrity society? In The Mass Appeal of Human Rights (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), Joel Pruce...
Sarah E. Holcombe, “Remote Freedoms: Politics, Personhood and Human Rights in Aboriginal Central Australia” (Stanford UP, 2018)
26 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In her new book, Remote Freedoms: Politics, Personhood and Human Rights in Aboriginal Central Australia (Stanford University Press, 2018), Sarah E....
Samuel Moyn, “Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World” (Harvard UP, 2018)
04 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Samuel Moyn’s The Last Utopia traced the evolution of the human rights revolution and argued that human rights as an ideology took the place of soci...
Sarah Snyder, “From Selma to Moscow: How Human Rights Activists Transformed Foreign Policy”
03 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Human rights as a concern in U.S. foreign policy and international politics has been well-documented, particularly in studies of the Carter Administra...
Sam Lebovic, “Free Speech and Unfree News: The Paradox of Press Freedom in America” (Harvard UP, 2016)
10 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Appeals to “press freedom” can be heard from across the political spectrum. But what those appeals mean varies dramatically. Sam Lebovic, in his e...
Aimi Hamraie, “Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability” (U Minnesota Press, 2017)
25 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Americans with Disability Act passed in 1990, but it was just one moment in ongoing efforts to craft the meaning and practice of “good design”...
Jimmy Patino, “Raza Si, Migra No: Chicano Movement Struggles for Immigrant Rights in San Diego” (UNC Press, 2017)
05 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
As immigration from Mexico to the United States grew through the 1970s and 1980s, the Border Patrol, police, and other state agents exerted increasing...
Jesse Rhodes, “Ballot Blocked: The Political Erosion of the Voting Rights Act” (Stanford UP, 2017)
19 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Voting rights are always in the news in American politics, and recent court decisions and an upcoming election in 2018 make this especially true today...
Bonny Ibhawoh, “Human Rights in Africa” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
02 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In his new book, Human Rights in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2018), Bonny Ibhawoh examines the discourse of human rights in Africa. He challen...
Sarah D. Phillips, “Disability and Mobile Citizenship in Postsocialist Ukraine” (Indiana UP, 2010)
14 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In Disability and Mobile Citizenship in Postsocialist Ukraine (Indiana University Press, 2010), Sarah D. Phillips offers a compelling investigation of...
Finbarr Curtis, “The Production of American Religious Freedom” (NYU Press, 2016)
14 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
There is no such thing as religious freedom, or at least just one understanding of what that means. That’s the crux of the argument in Finbarr Curti...
Stephanie Hinnershitz, “A Different Shade of Justice: Asian American Civil Rights in the South” (UNC Press, 2017)
14 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In her recent book, A Different Shade of Justice: Asian American Civil Rights in the South (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), Stephanie Hinne...
Andrew R. Lewis, “The Rights Turn in Conservative Christian Politics: How Abortion Transformed the Culture Wars” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
06 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew R. Lewis is the author of the new book, The Rights Turn in Conservative Christian Politics: How Abortion Transformed the Culture Wars (Cambridg...
Riki Wilchins, “TRANS/gressive: How Transgender Activists Took on Gay Rights, Feminism, the Media, and Congress…and Won!” (Riverdale Avenue Books, 2017)
26 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Before Transgender actors entered popular culture, and before the “T” was included in LGBT, Transgender activism was a small and marginalized move...
Jill Gentile, “Feminine Law: Freud, Free Speech, and the Voice of Desire” (Karnac, 2016)
08 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Psychoanalysis has a reputation for insularity, often limiting its interest and scope to events in the consulting room. But the origins of Freud’s n...
Mark P. Bradley, “The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
17 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In his farewell address, President George Washington warned his fellow citizens of the dangers of what has come to be known in American political spee...
Elizabeth Barnes, “The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability” (Oxford UP, 2016)
03 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We are all familiar with the idea that some persons are disabled. But what is disability? What makes it such that a condition–physical, cognitive, p...
Carrie Booth Walling, “All Necessary Measures: The United Nations and Humanitarian Intervention” (U. of Pennsylvania Press, 2013)
19 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Why does the UN intervene in some cases of mass violence and not others? Why and how have public attitudes toward humanitarian intervention changed ov...
Sally Engle Merry, “The Seduction of Quantification: Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking” (U. of Chicago Press, 2016)
07 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Quantification is not usually the first thing that comes to mind when hearing or reading about the United Nations High Commission on Human Rights (OHC...
Jonathan Todres and Sarah Higinbotham, “Human Rights in Children’s Literature: Imagination and the Narrative of the Law” (Oxford UP, 2016)
18 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
How can children grow to realize their inherent rights and respect the rights of others? In Human Rights in Children’s Literature: Imagination and t...
Katherine Turk, “Equality on Trial: Gender and Rights in the Modern American Workplace” (U. of Pennsylvania Press, 2016)
19 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Katherine Turk is assistant professor of history at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her book Equality on Trial: Gender and Rights in the Mo...
Ayten Gundogdu, “Rightlessness in an Age of Rights: Hannah Arendt and the Contemporary Struggles of Migrants” (Oxford UP, 2015)
26 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
How does one “rethink and revise the key concepts of Hannah Arendt’s political theory in light of the struggles of asylum seekers, refugees, and u...
Daniel K. Williams, “Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement Before Roe v. Wade” (Oxford UP, 2016)
01 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel K. Williams is an associate professor of history at the University of West Georgia. His book, Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement Be...
Samuel Moyn, “Christian Human Rights” (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)
06 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Samuel Moyn is Professor of Law and History at Harvard University. In Christian Human Rights University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015), Moyn provides a ...
Anita Weiss, “Interpreting Islam, Modernity, and Women’s Rights in Pakistan” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
26 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Pakistan is often caricatured and stereotyped as a volatile nuclear country on the precipice of disaster. Such depictions are often especially acerbic...
Alice J. Kang, “Bargaining for Women’s Rights: Activism in an Aspiring Muslim Democracy” (U of Minnesota Press, 2015)
16 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Alice J. Kang has written Bargaining for Women’s Rights: Activism in an Aspiring Muslim Democracy (University of Minnesota Press, 2015). Kang is ass...
Saba Mahmood, “Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report” (Princeton UP, 2015)
07 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
It is commonly thought that violence, injustice, and discrimination against religious minorities, especially in the Middle East, are a product of reli...
Kerry Eleveld, “Don’t Tell Me to Wait: How the Fight for Gay Rights Changed America and Transformed Obama’s Presidency” (Basic Books, 2015)
22 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Kerry Eleveld is the author of Don’t Tell Me to Wait: How the Fight for Gay Rights Changed America and Transformed Obama’s Presidency (Basic Books...
John Holt, “Escape from Childhood: The Needs and Rights of Children” (HoltGWS LLC, 2013)
20 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
We treat children differently than we treat adults. For example, if we would like children to do something, we use directives with them, rather than a...
Henry Shue, “Climate Justice: Vulnerability and Protection” (Oxford UP, 2014)
21 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
How can a practical philosophical perspective concerned with justice and fairness help us address the problem of climate change? Henry Shue (Merton Co...
Kyle G. Volk, “Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy” (Oxford UP, 2014)
21 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Kyle G. Volk is an associate professor of history at the University of Montana. His book Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy (Oxford...
Beatrix Hoffman, “Health Care for Some: Rights and Rationing in the United States since 1930” (U of Chicago, 2012)
28 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Disputes over the definitions or legality of ‘rights’ and ‘rationing’ in their various guises have animated much of the debate around the Unit...
Jon L. Mills, “Privacy in the New Media Age” (University Press of Florida, 2015)
25 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
That privacy in the digital age is an important concept to be discussed is axiomatic. Cameras in mobile phones make it easy to record events and post ...
Thomas Weiss and Dan Plesch, eds., "We are Strong: Wartime Origins and the Future United Nations" (Routledge, 2015)
05 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Weiss and Dan Plesch are the co-editors of We Are Strong: Wartime Origins and the Future United Nations (Routledge, 2015). Weiss is Presid...
Seana Shiffrin, “Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the Law” (Princeton UP, 2014)
02 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
It is generally accepted that lying is morally prohibited. But theorists divide over the nature of lying’s wrongness, and thus there is disagreement...
Carol Gould, “Interactive Democracy: The Social Roots of Global Justice” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
01 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Contemporary advances in technology have in many ways made the world smaller. It is now possible for vast numbers of geographically disparate people ...
Amy Evrard, “The Moroccan Women’s Rights Movement” (Syracuse University Press, 2014)
30 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Amy Evrard‘s first book, The Moroccan Women’s Rights Movement (Syracuse University Press, 2014), examines women’s attempts to change their patri...
Lynette J. Chua, “Mobilizing Gay Singapore: Rights and Resistance in an Authoritarian State” (Temple UP, 2014)
15 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Singapore has a well-deserved reputation as a state that stifles dissent and polices activism. But as Lynette Chua shows in Mobilizing Gay Singapore: ...
Cymene Howe, “Intimate Activism: The Struggle for Sexual Rights in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua” (Duke UP, 2013)
10 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
With Intimate Activism: The Struggle for Sexual Rights in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua (Duke University Press, 2013), Cymene Howe offers an ethnography...
Marci A. Hamilton, “God vs. the Gavel: Religion and the Rule of Law” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
07 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The constitution guarantees Americans freedom of religious practice and freedom from government interference in the same same. But what does religious...
Federico Fabbrini, “Fundamental Rights in Europe: Challenges and Transformations in Comparative Perspective” (Oxford University Press, 2014)
21 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Federico Fabbrini is Assistant Professor of European & Comparative Constitutional Law at Tilburg Law School in the Netherlands. In his new book, entit...
Daniel Lewis, “Direct Democracy and Minority Rights: A Critical Assessment of the Tyranny of the Majority in the American States” (Routledge, 2013)
03 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Lewis is the author of Direct Democracy and Minority Rights: A Critical Assessment of the Tyranny of the Majority in the American States (Routl...
Samuel Moyn, “The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History” (Harvard UP, 2010)
14 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (Harvard University Press 2010) takes the reader on a sweeping journey through the history of international l...
James E. Fleming and Linda C. McClain, “Ordered Liberty: Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues” (Harvard UP, 2013)
02 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Many have argued in recent years that the U.S. constitutional system exalts individual rights over responsibilities, virtues, and the common good. Ans...
Shannon Gleeson, “Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston” (Cornell UP, 2012)
17 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Shannon Gleeson is the author of Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston (Cornell Universit...
Daniel McCool, “The Most Fundamental Right: Contrasting Perspectives on the Voting Rights Act” (Indiana UP, 2012)
27 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel McCool, professor of political science at the University of Utah, is the editor of The Most Fundamental Right: Contrasting Perspectives on the ...
Corey Brettschneider, “When the State Speaks, What Should it Say? How Democracies can Protect Expression and Promote Equality” (Princeton UP, 2012)
26 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Liberal democracies are in the business of protecting individuals and their rights. Central among these are the rights to free expression, freedom of ...
Julietta Hua, “Trafficking Women’s Human Rights” (University of Minnesota Press, 2011)
13 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
In Trafficking Women’s Human Rights (University of Minnesota Press, 2011), Julietta Hua analyzes how discourse on human trafficking creates the boun...
Ann Elizabeth Mayer, “Islam and Human Rights: Traditions and Politics” (Westview Press, 2012)
24 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
In the new edition to Islam and Human Rights: Traditions and Politics (Westview Press, 2012), Ann Elizabeth Mayer analyzes the complex issue of intern...
Niamh Reilly, “Women’s Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalizing Age” (Polity Press, 2009)
20 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Today, you can open your newspaper and find stories about mass rape in the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, death sentences for adulterous wom...
Jonathan Weiler, “Human Rights in Russia: A Darker Side of Reform” (Lynne Rienner, 2004)
25 Aug 2011
Contributed by Lukas
A new documentary by Robin Hessman “My Presteroika” portrays the lives of five individuals who, as children, were raised in the Soviet Union but w...
Rajshree Chandra, “Knowledge as Property, Issues in the Moral Grounding of Intellectual Property Rights” (Oxford UP, 2010)
04 Aug 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Copyright is one of those topics over which even two saints disagreed. The legend has it that Saint Columba and Saint Finnian engaged in an argument a...
Aziz Rana, “The Two Faces of American Freedom” (Harvard UP, 2010)
13 Jul 2011
Contributed by Lukas
America, wrote the late historian and public intellectual Tony Judt, is “intensely familiar–and completely unknown.” America’s current positio...