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:
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).
Nickel, James, Making Sense of Human Rights, Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2007 (2nd ed.), ch 1-10, pp 7-167 (160 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 (32 pp).
*Iriye, Akira, et. al., The Human Rights Revolution: An International History, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, ch 1-2, pp 27-51 & pp 53-71, 43 pp.
*Risse, Thomas, Stephen C. Ropp, and Kathryn Sikkink (eds), The Persistent Power of Human Rights. From Commitment to Compliance, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, ch 1-2, pp 3-42 (39 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).
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).
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). Oria online system (E-book, 2010).
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: 785 pages
Recommended reading:
Benhabib, Seyla, Claiming Rights across Borders: International Human Rights and Democratic Sovereignty, American Political Science Review, vol. 103, no.04 (2009): 691-704.
http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FPSR%2FPSR103_04%2FS0003055409990244a.pdf&code=574f347a984aac55892e95a86818a91c
Corradetti, Claudio, Philosophical Issues in Transitional Justice Theory: A (Provisional) Balance, in Politica & Societá, 2/2013, pp 185-220, 36 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).
Hunt, Lynn, Inventing Human Rights, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2007, ch 4, pp 146-175 (29 pp).
Kennedy, David, The International Human Rights Movement: Part of the Problem?, Harvard Human Rights Journal, 15, 2002, pp 101-126 (22 pp).
http://www.heinonline.org/HOL/Index?index=journals%2Fhhrj&collection=journals
Leebaw, Anne Bronwyn, ‘The Irreconcilable Goals of Transitional Justice’ i Human Rights Quarterly, Vol 30, no 1, February 2008, pp 95-118, 23 pp.
http://www.heinonline.org/HOL/Index?index=journals%2Fhurq&collection=journals
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, 1997-1998: 273–300 (28 pp).
http://www.heinonline.org/HOL/Index?index=journals%2Fflr&collection=journals
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).
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1088-4963.2004.00017.x/pdf