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Basic works on the subject include
Anne F. Bayefsky,
The UN Human Rights Treaty System: Universality at the
Crossroads (2001); Robert
F. Drinan, The Mobilization of Shame: A World View of
Human Rights (2001);
Michael Ignatieff, Human Rights as Politics and
Idolatry, ed. by Amy
Gutmann (2001); Richard
Falk, Human Rights Horizons: The Pursuit of Justice in
a Globalizing World (2000);
Martha C. Nussbaum,
“Capabilities, Human Rights, and the Universal Declaration,” and
Burns H. Weston, “The
Universality of Human Rights in a Multicultured World: Toward
Respectful Decision-Making,” in
Burns H. Weston and
Stephen P. Marks
(eds.), The Future of International Human Rights (1999),
pp. 25–99; Hurst Hannum,
Guide to International Human Rights Practice, 3rd ed.
(1999), and Autonomy, Sovereignty, and Self-Determination:
The Accommodation of Conflicting Rights, rev. ed. (1996);
John Rawls, The Law
of Peoples (1999); Paul
Gordon Lauren, The Evolution of International Human
Rights: Visions Seen (1998);
William Korey, NGOs
and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1998);
Michael J. Perry,
The Idea of Human Rights: Four Inquiries (1998);
S. James Anaya,
Indigenous Peoples in International Law (1996);
Beverly C. Edmonds and
William R. Fernekes,
Children's Rights: A Reference Handbook (1996);
Alan Gewirth, The
Community of Rights (1996);
David Gillies,
Between Principle and Practice: Human Rights in North-South
Relations (1996); Guy S.
Goodwin-Gill, The Refugee in International Law,
2nd ed. (1996); A.H. Robertson
and J.G. Merrills,
Human Rights in the World, 4th ed. (1996);
Henry Shue, Basic
Rights: Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policy, 2nd
ed. (1996); Henry J. Steiner
and Philip Alston,
International Human Rights in Context: Law, Politics, Morals
(1996); Thomas Buergenthal,
International Human Rights in a Nutshell, 2nd ed. (1995);
Asbjörn Eide,
Catarina Krause, and
Allan Rosas (eds.),
Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: A Textbook (1995);
United Nations Centre for
Human Rights, United Nations Action in the Field of
Human Rights (1994); Ann
Elizabeth Mayer, Islam and Human Rights: Tradition and
Politics, 3rd ed. (1999);
Rebecca J. Cook (ed.), Human Rights of Women: National
and International Perspectives (1994);
Louis Henkin and
John Lawrence Hargrove
(eds.), Human Rights: An Agenda for the Next Century
(1994); Rein Müllerson,
International Law, Rights, and Politics: Developments in
Eastern Europe and the CIS (1994);
Andrew Clapham,
Human Rights in the Private Sphere (1993);
Jack Donnelly, The
Concept of Human Rights (1985), and International Human
Rights, 2nd ed. (1998);
Hurst Hannum and Dana
D. Fischer (eds.), U.S. Ratification of the
International Covenants on Human Rights (1993);
Philip Alston (ed.),
The United Nations and Human Rights: A Critical Appraisal
(1992); Abdullahi Ahmed
An-Na‘im (ed.), Human Rights in Cross-Cultural
Perspectives (1992);
Richard Pierre Claude and
Burns H. Weston (eds.
and contributors), Human Rights in the World Community,
2nd ed. (1992); James Crawford
(ed.), The Rights of Peoples (1992);
Astrid J.M. Delissen
and Gerard J. Tanja,
Humanitarian Law of Armed Conflict: Challenges Ahead (1991);
James C. Hathaway,
The Law of Refugee Status (1991);
Edward Lawson
(compiler), Encyclopedia of Human Rights, 2nd ed. (1996);
Antonio Cassese,
Human Rights in a Changing World (1990; originally published
in Italian, 1988); Bertrand
Binoche, Critiques des droits de l'homme (1989);
Theodor Meron, Human
Rights in Internal Strife: Their International Protection
(1987), and Human Rights Law-Making in the United Nations
(1986); R.J. Vincent,
Human Rights and International Relations (1986);
Theodor Meron (ed.),
Human Rights in International Law: Legal and Policy Issues,
2 vol. (1984, reprinted 1992);
David P. Forsythe, Human Rights and World Politics,
2nd ed., rev. (1989); Karel
Vasak and Philip Alston
(eds.), The International Dimensions of Human Rights, 2
vol., trans. from French (1982);
Richard Falk, Human
Rights and State Sovereignty (1981);
Louis Henkin (ed.),
The International Bill of Rights: The Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights (1981);
Myres S. McDougal,
Harold D. Lasswell, and
Lung-chu Chen, Human Rights and World Public Order:
The Basic Policies of an International Law of Human Dignity
(1980); Noam Chomsky
and Edward S. Herman,
The Political Economy of Human Rights, 2 vol. (1979);
Adamantia Pollis and
Peter Schwab (eds.),
Human Rights: Cultural and Ideological Perspectives (1979);
Ronald Dworkin,
Taking Rights Seriously (1977);
Richard P. Claude
(ed.), Comparative Human Rights (1976);
Manouchehr Ganji,
The Realization of Economic,
Social, and Cultural Rights: Problems, Policies, Progress
(1975); Maurice Cranston,
What Are Human Rights? (1973);
John Carey, UN
Protection of Civil and Political Rights (1970);
József Halász (ed.),
Socialist Concept of Human Rights (1966; originally
published in Hungarian, 1965);
Hersch Lauterpacht, International Law and Human Rights
(1950, reissued 1973); Richard
B. Bilder, “Rethinking International Human Rights: Some
Basic Questions,” Wisconsin Law Review, 171(1):171–217
(1969); and Egon Schwelb,
Human Rights and the International Community: The Roots and
Growth of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948–1963
(1964).
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