Articles and extraits from books marked with an asterisk (*) are available in a compilation of texts (kompendium) which can be purchased from Gnist Akademika bookstore at the Law Faculty (Domus Nova building).
Required reading
Required reading
Books & book chapters:
Beitz, Charles, The Idea of Human Rights, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009, ch 2-4, pp 13-93 (80 pp).
Forsythe, David P., Human rights in International Relations, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006 (2nd edition), ch 3 (pp 57-89) & 5-7 (pp 121-218) (129 pp). SMR har 6 eks. Ny 2012-utgave er bestilt i ett eks.
*Ishay, Michelin R., The History of Human Rights. From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. Ch 1, pp 15-47 (32 pp).
Landman, Todd, Studying Human Rights. London: Routledge 2006, ch 1-5, pp 8-92 & 7-8, pp 126-xxx (xxx pp).
*Moyn, Samuel, The Last Utopia. Human Rights in History. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010, ch 1, pp 11-44 (33 pp).
Nickel, James, Making Sense of Human Rights. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Pp 7-189 (182 pp).
*Risse, Thomas, Stephen C. Ropp, and Kathryn Sikkink (eds), The Power of Human Rights. International Norms and Domestic Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University press, 1999, ch 1 pp 1-38 (37 pp).
Articles:
- The journal articles below are available in fulltext here: http://www.ub.uio.no/english/. Choose E-journals.
- The books below which are marked “E-book” are available in fulltext in BIBSYS Ask. Choose the e-version of the book and open the link.
- The UN-reports below are available online (http://www.un.org/en/documents/ods/).
Buchanan, Allen. “The Egalitarianism of Human Rights.” Ethics, vol. 120, no. 4 (July 2010): 679-710. (32 pp).
Cohen, Joshua. “Minimalism About Human Rights: The Most We Can Hope For?” Journal of Political Philosophy, vol. 12, no. 2 (June 2004): 190–213 (24 pp.)
Donnelly, Jack. “The relative universality of Human Rights”, Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 2 (2007): 281-306 (25 pp).
Ekern, Stener. "Visions of the Right Order. Contrasts between Mayan Communitarian Law in Guatemala and International Human Rights Law". In: Lone Lindholt and Sten Schaumberg-Müller (eds.), Human Rights in Development Yearbook 2003. Human Rights and Local/living Law. Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2004, pp 267-291 (24 pp).
Link til fulltekst: http://www.heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.intyb/ybhumri2003&id=275&collection=intyb&index=intyb/ybhumri
Goodhart, Michael. “Neither relative nor universal. A response to Donnelly”, Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 1 (2008): 183-193 (10 pp).
Ignatieff, Michael. Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001: 53-98 (46 pp).
Ingram, James D. “What Is a ‘Right to Have Rights’? Three Images of the Politics of Human Rights” American Political Science Review, vol. 102, no. 04 (December 2008): 401-416 (15 pp).
Nussbaum, Martha C. “Capabilities and Human Rights.” Fordham Law Review, vol. 66: 273–300 (28 pp).
Teruhisa Se 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).
Recommended:
Baynes, Kenneth. “Toward a Political Conception of Human Rights”. Philosophy & Social Criticism, vol. 35, no. 4 (May 2009): 371–390. Beitz, Charles. The Idea of Human Rights. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009, chapter 6, esp. 141-44.
Benhabib, Seyla. “Claiming Rights across Borders: International Human Rights and Democratic Sovereignty.” American Political Science Review, vol. 103, no.04 (2009): 691-704.
Donnelly, Jack. “Both universal and relative. A reply to Goodhart”, Human Rights Quarterly vol. 30, no. 1 (2008): 194-204 (20).
Epp, Charles R., The Rights Revolution. Lawyers, Activists, and Supreme Courts in Comparative Perspective, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1998, ch 2-6, pp 11-110 (99 pp).
Fagan, Andrew (2005). “Human rights.” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. http://www.iep.utm.edu/hum-rts/
Forst, Rainer. “The Justification of Human Rights and the Basic Right to Justification: A Reflexive Approach.” Ethics vol. 120, no. 4 (July 2010): 711–740 (30).
Gourevitch, Alex. “Are Human Rights Liberal?” Journal of Human Rights, vol. 8, no. 4 (2009): 301-322.
Montgomery, Heather, “Imposing Rights? A case study of chil prostitution in Thailand”. In: Jane C. Cowan, Marie Bénédicte Dembour and Richard A. Wilson (eds.), Culture and Rights. Anthropological Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, 2001. (21 pp)
Pitarch, Pedro. “The labyrinth of Translation: A Tzeltal Version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights”. In: Pedro Pitarch, Shannon Speed and Xochitl Leyva Solano (eds), Human Rights in the Maya Region. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2008, ch. 4, pp. 91-122 (31 pp).
Reidy, David. “Philosophy and Human Rights: Contemporary Perspectives.” In: Claudio Corradetti (ed.), Philosophical Dimensions of Human Rights, pp. 23–44. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2012. E-book.
Simmons, Beth, Mobilizing for Human Rights. International Law in Domestic Politics, ch 4, pp 112-155 (43 pp).
Tasioulas, John. “Are Human Rights Essentially Triggers for Intervention?” Philosophy Compass, vol. 4, no. 6 (2009): 938-950.
Valentini, Laura. “In What Sense are Human Rights Political? A Preliminary Exploration.” Political Studies, vol. 60, no. 1 (2012): 180-194.