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
Main books:
Nickel, James, Making Sense of Human Rights, Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2007, ch 1-10, pp 7-167 (160 pp).
Forsythe, David P., Human Rights in International Relations, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012 (3rd edition), ch 3 (pp 71-116) & 5-7 (pp 155-276) (166 pp).
Book chapters and articles in compendium:
*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).
*Hunt, Lynn, Inventing Human Rights, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2007, ch 3, pp 113-145 (33 pp).
*Iriye, Akira, et.al., The Human Rights Revolution: An International History, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, ch 2-3, pp 53-92 (39 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).
*Waldron, J., (ed.), Nonsense upon Stilts. Bentham, Burke and Marx on the Rights of Man, New York: Taylor and Francis, 1987, ch 3 (pp 22-76), ch 5 (pp 119-150) (78 pp).
*Corradetti, Claudio, What does cultural difference require of human rights, in C. Holder and D. Reidy (eds.), Human Rights. The Hard Questions, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, pp 136-149 (13 pp).
Articles online (available in form of E-book or E-Journal):
Students gain access to the articles below by using their usual UiO password and username. Read more about how to connect to the UiO network from home or away: http://www.uio.no/english/services/it/network/
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). http://www.heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.intyb/ybhumri2003&id=275&collection=intyb&index=intyb/ybhumri (E-book).
Habermas, Jürgen, The Concept of Human Dignity and the Realistic Utopia of Human Rights, in Claudio Corradetti (ed.), Philosophical Dimensions of Human Rights. Some Contemporary Views, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2012, pp 63-81 (18 pp). http://bibsys-almaprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/dlSearch.do?institution=UBO&tab=default_tab&query=any,contains,114821232&vid=UBO (E-book).
Griffin, James, On Human Rights, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, ch 1 (1.2-1.6), 2, 3 (3.1-3.5), 4, 6, 7, 8 (110 pp). http://ask.bibsys.no/ask/action/show?pid=101683952&kid=biblio (E-book, 2010).
Habermas, Jürgen, Human Rights and Popular Sovereignty, Ratio Juris, Vol 7, March 1994, pp 1-13 (13 pp). http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9337.1994.tb00162.x/abstract (E-Journal).
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). http://bibsys-almaprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/dlSearch.do?institution=UBO&tab=default_tab&query=any,contains,121811905&vid=UBO (E-book).
Simmons, Beth, Mobilizing for Human Rights. International Law in Domestic Politics, Cambridge University Press, 2009, ch 4, pp 112-155 (43 pp). http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9780511811340 (E-book).
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). http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1475483042000224842 (E-book).
Total: 752 pages
Recommended:
Benhabib, Seyla, Claiming Rights across Borders: International Human Rights and Democratic Sovereignty, American Political Science Review, vol. 103, no.04 (2009): 691-704.
Kennedy, David, The International Human Rights Movement: Part of the Problem?, Harvard Human Rights Journal, 15, 2002, pp 1-23 (22 pp).
Montgomery, Heather, Imposing Rights? A case study of child prostitution in Thailand, in: Jane C. Cowan, Marie Bénédicte Dembour and Richard A. Wilson (eds.), Culture and Rights. Anthropological Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Nussbaum, Martha C, Capabilities and Human Rights, Fordham Law Review, vol. 66: 273–300 (28 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).
Sen, Amartya, Elements of a Theory of Human Rights, Philosophy and Public Affairs, vol 32, no 4, autumn 2004, pp 315-256 (41 pp).
Hunt, Lynn, Inventing Human Rights, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2007, ch 4, pp 146-175 (29 pp).