Introductionary reading
James Nickel 2007: Making Sense of Human Rights, 2nd Edition. Malden, MA, Blackwell Publishing
Required reading
Charles Beitz 2009, The Idea of Human Rights, Oxford University Press, ch. 5+6: 96-159 (64 pages)
http://lib.myilibrary.com/Open.aspx?id=235470
Allen Buchanan 2013, The Heart of Human Rights, Oxford University Press, ch 2+3: 50-84, 85-106 (57pages)
http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199325382.001.0001/acprof-9780199325382
Allen Buchanan 2015, “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 (19 pages)
http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199688623.001.0001/acprof-9780199688623-chapter-14 *
Roland Burke 2006, “‘The Compelling Dialogue of Freedom”: Human Rights at the Bandung Conference, HRQ 28(4): 947-965 (19 pages)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/205889/pdf
Cordon Crawford and B?rd A Andreassen 2013, “Human rights, power, and civic action: theoretical considerations” in B?rd A Andreassen and Gordon Crawford, eds. Human Rights, Power and Civic Action. Comparative analyses of struggles for rights in developing societies, Routledge, 2013: 1-21 (21 pages).*
David P. Forsythe, “The US and International Criminal Justice,” HRQ vol 24(4) 2002: 974-991 (18 pages)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/13858/pdf
James Griffin 2001, “Discrepancies Between the Best Philosophical Account of Human Rights and the International Law of Human Rights”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 101 (1):1-28 (2001) (28 pages)
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0066-7372.2003.00019.x/epdf
James Griffin 2001, “First Steps in an Account of Human Rights”, European Journal of Philosophy 9 (3): 306-327 (22 pages)
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-0378.00139/epdf
Mary Ann Glendon 2001: A World Made New. Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, New York, Random House: 53-78, 251-255 (endnotes); 143-172, 260-263 (endnotes) (65 pages)*
Martti Koskenniemi, “International Law and Hegemony: A Reconfiguration,” Cambridge Review of International Affairs 17, 2004:197-218 (24 pages)
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0955757042000245852
Tore Lindholm 2008: “The Cross-Cultural Legitimacy of Universal Human Rights: Plural Justification across Normative Divides,” in F.Francioni and M. Scheinin eds., Cultural Human Rights, Leiden, M. Nijhoff Publishers: 17-40 (23 pages)
http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/books/10.1163/ej.9789004162945.i-372.12
David Luban “Human Rights Pragmatism and Human Dignity”, in Rowan Cruft, S. Matthew Liao, and Massimo Renzo eds. Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights, Oxford University Press, 2015: 263-278 (16 pages)
Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Kari Vogt, Lena Larsen, Christian Moe eds., Gender and Equality in Muslim Family law; Justice and Ethics in the Islamic Legal Tradition, London, I.B.Tauris 2013:127-152, 213-234 (47 pages)*
Joseph Raz 2010, “Human Rights without Foundations”, In J. Tasioulas & S. Besson (eds.), The Philosophy of International Law. Oxford University Press (2010),: 321-337 (17 pages)*
Christian Reus-Smith 2013: Individual Rights and the Making or the International System, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 35-67; 151-192 (64 pages)
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/individual-rights-and-the-making-of-the-international-system/A915E13F20DDBD0F5FEE91A59D7C827A
Thomas Risse, Stephen C. Ropp, Kathryn Sikkink, eds, 2013: The Persistent Power of Human Rights: From Commitment to Compliance, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1-59; 275-295 (80 pages)
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/the-persistent-power-of-human-rights/D26A23B19102926B4E77B1EDEA3773F1
Kathryn Sikkink 2011: The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics, W. W. Norton & Company: 31-85; 283-289 (62 pages)*
Charles Taylor 2011, Dilemmas and Connections. Selected Essays, Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press: 105-123 (19 pages)*
Kari Vogt, Lena Larsen, Christian Moe, eds. New Directions in Islamic Thought: Exploring Reform and Muslim Tradition, London, I.B.Tauris 2009:47-73 (27 pages)*
Jeremy Waldron 2009: “Dignity, Rank and Rights,” The Berkeley Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 209-253] (45 pages)
http://tannerlectures.utah.edu/_documents/a-to-z/w/Waldron_09.pdf
Susan Waltz 2001: “Universalizing Human Rights: The Role of Small States in the Construction of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” HRQ 23(1): 44-72 (29 pages)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/13757/pdf
Susan Waltz 2004: “Universal Human Rights: The Contribution of Muslim States,” HRQ 26(4): 799-844 (46 pages)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174743/pdf
Total: 802 pages
Recommended reading
Alan Gewirth 1982: Human Rights. Essays on Justification and Applications. Chicago, University of Chicago Press
Allen Buchanan 2013, The Heart of Human Rights, Oxford University Press (the parts of the book not on the required reading list)
http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199325382.001.0001/acprof-9780199325382
Charles Beitz 2009, The Idea of Human Rights, Oxford University Press (the parts of the book not on the required reading list)
http://lib.myilibrary.com/Open.aspx?id=235470
Christian Reus-Smith 2011, “Struggles for Individual rights and the Expansion of the International System,” International Organization vol 65(2): 207-242
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-organization/issue/FCC31C7DAA57F1599FC1345C1BDB16ED
Elizabeth Stubbins Bates. 2014, “Sophisticated Constructivism and Human Rights Compliance Theory” in The European Journal of International Law Vol. 25. No 4 (2014)
http://ejil.oxfordjournals.org/content/25/4/1169.full.pdf+html
Gudmundur Alfredsson and Asbj?rn Eide, eds, 1999: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A Common Standard of Achievement, The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers: 3-24
Hubert Cancik 2002: ”’Dignity of Man’ and ‘Persona’ in Stoic Anthropology: some Remarks on Cicero, De officis I 105-107,” in David Kretzmer and Eckart Kein eds., The Concept of Human Dignity and Human Rights Discourse. The Hague, Kluwer Law International: 19-39
Jack Donnelly2013: Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice 3rd Edition, Cornell University Press
James Nickel 2007: Making Sense of Human Rights, 2nd Edition. Malden, MA, Blackwell Publishing
Jan Eckel 2010: “Human Rights and Decolonization: New Perspectives and Open Questions,” Humanity: Intern. J. of Human Rights, vol 1(1), Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press: 111-135
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/394853/pdf
Jean L. Cohen 2012: Globalization and Sovereignty: Rethinking Legality, Legitimacy and Constitutionalism, New York, Cambridge University Press: 159-222; 360-377 (endnotes)
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/globalization-and-sovereignty/6E1A1C32C982FC621259A684EDE19633
John Tasioulas 2012, “Towards a Philosophy of Human Rights”, Current Legal Problems: 65(1), 1-30
http://clp.oxfordjournals.org/content/65/1/1.full.pdf+html
Joshua Cohen 2004, “Minimalism About Human Rights: The Most We Can Hope For?”, The Journal of Political Philosophy 12 (2): 190-213
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jopp.2004.12.issue-2/issuetoc
Kathryn Sikkink 2011: The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics, W. W. Norton & Company: 129-222; 292-303
Mary Ann Glendon 2001: A World Made New. Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, New York, Random House (the parts of the book not on the required reading list)
Roland Burke 2010, Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press: 13-58, 153-165 (endnotes); 112-144, 189-198 (endnotes)
S. Matthew Liao and Adam Etinson 2012: "Political and Naturalistic Conceptions of Human Rights: A False Polemic?", Journal of Moral Philosophy, Volume 9, Issue 3, pages 327 – 352
http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/17455243-00903008
Samuel Moyn 2010: The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History, Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press
Thomas Risse, Stephen C. Ropp and Kathryn Sikkink eds. 1999. The Power of Human Rights. International Norms and Domestic Change. Cambridge University Press.
Thomas Risse, Stephen C. Ropp and Kathryn Sikkink eds. 2013. The Persistent Power of Human Rights. From Commitment to Compliance. Cambridge University Press. (the parts of the book not on the required reading list)
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/the-persistent-power-of-human-rights/D26A23B19102926B4E77B1EDEA3773F1