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.), chs 1-11, pp 7-184 (178 pp).
Book chapters and articles in compendium:
*Cmiel, Kenneth, The Recent History of Human Rights, in Akira, Iriye et.al. (2012), The Human Rights Revolution: An International History, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 27-51 (25 pp).
*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).
*Ishay, Micheline R., The History of Human Rights From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era, University of California Press, 2008, Ch 2: Human Rights and the Enlightenment, pp 63-116 (53 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 (47 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/
Beitz, Charles, ‘What Human Rights Mean’, Daedalus, Vol. 132, No 1, On International justice, Winter 2003, pp 36-46 (11 pp). http://www.jstor.org/stable/20027821?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Buchanan, Allen, 2013, The Heart of Human Rights, Oxford University Press, p. 50-81 (most of chapter 2) (32 pages)
http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199325382.001.0001/acprof-9780199325382 (+32 s)
Ekern, Stener. "Towards a Mayan Theory of Human Rights: Sacred Equilibria and the Consequences of Disrespect". In Nordic Journal of Human Rights, 34:4 (2016), pp 272-288. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/18918131.2016.1248060
O’Neill, Onora, ‘The dark side of human rights’, International Affairs, 81, 2 (2005), pp 427-439 (13 pp). http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2346.2005.00459.x/full
Pogge, Thomas, ‘How Should Human Rights be Conceived?’, Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik / Annual Review of Law and Ethics, Vol 3, Themenschwerpunkt: Rechtstaat und Menschenrechte / Human Rights and The Rule of Law (1995), pp 103-120 (18 pp) http://www.jstor.org/stable/43592933?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
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). https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/persistent-power-of-human-rights/D26A23B19102926B4E77B1EDEA3773F1
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
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).
Waldron, Jeremy, ‘Rights in Conflict’, Ethics, Vol 99, No. 3 (April, 1989), pp 503-519 (17 pp). http://www.jstor.org/stable/2380863?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Total: 797 pages
Recommended:
Cohen, Daniel G., The Holocuast and the “Human Rights Revolution”: A Reassessment, in Akira, Iriye et.al. (2012), The Human Rights Revolution: An International History, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 53-72 (19 pp).
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).
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.
Nagel, Thomas, ‘Personal Rights and Public Space’, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Vol 24, No. 2 (Spring, 1995), pp 83-107 (25 pp). http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1088-4963.1995.tb00024.x/abstract
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).
Sim, May, A Confucian Approach to Human Righys, in History and Philosophy Quarterly, Vol. 21 (4), October 2004, pp 337-356 (19 pp). http://www.jstor.org/stable/27745000?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents