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A. Books and Articles in the Philosophy of Human Rights
- [AAA] American Anthropological Association, 1947, “Statement
on Human Rights”, American Anthropologist, 49(4):
539–543. doi:10.1525/aa.1947.49.4.02a00020
[AAA 1947 available online] (Scholar)
- –––, 2020, “Declaration on Anthropology
and Human Rights”
[AAA 1999 available online]. (Scholar)
- Alston, Philip, 1984, “Conjuring Up New Human Rights: A
Proposal For Quality Control”, American Journal of
International Law, 78(3): 607–621. doi:10.2307/2202599 (Scholar)
- Ashford, Elizabeth, 2006, “The Inadequacy of Our Traditional Conception of the Duties Imposed by Human Rights”, The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, 19(2): 217–235. doi:10.1017/s0841820900004082 (Scholar)
- –––, 2014, “Responsibility for Violations
of the Human Right to Subsistence”, in
Meyers 2014:
94–118 (ch. 4). (Scholar)
- –––, 2015, “A Moral Inconsistency Argument for a Basic Human Right to Subsistence”, in Cruft, Liao, and Renzo 2015: 515–534 (ch. 29). doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199688623.003.0030 (Scholar)
- Bauer, Joanne R. and Daniel Bell (eds), 1999, The
East Asian Challenge for Human Rights, Cambridge/New York:
Cambridge University Press.
- Beetham, David, 1995, “What Future for Economic and Social
Rights?”, Political Studies, 43(1): 41–60.
doi:10.1111/j.1467-9248.1995.tb01735.x (Scholar)
- Beitz, Charles R., 2009, The Idea of Human Rights, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199572458.001.0001 (Scholar)
- –––, 2013, “Human Dignity in the Theory of Human Rights: Nothing But a Phrase?”, Philosophy & Public Affairs, 41(3): 259–290. doi:10.1111/papa.12017 (Scholar)
- –––, 2015, “The Force of Subsistence Rights”, in Cruft, Liao, and Renzo 2015: 535–552 (ch. 30). doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199688623.003.0031 (Scholar)
- Besson, Samantha, 2015, “The Bearers of Human Rights’ Duties and Responsibilities for Human Rights: A Quiet (R)evolution?”, Social Philosophy and Policy, 32(1): 244–268. doi:10.1017/s0265052515000151 (Scholar)
- Beyleveld, Deryck, 1991, The Dialectical Necessity of
Morality: An Analysis and Defense of Alan Gewirth’s Argument to
the Principle of Generic Consistency, Chicago: University of
Chicago Press. (Scholar)
- Bodansky, Daniel, 2009, “Introduction: Climate Change and
Human Rights: Unpacking the Issues Symposium: International Human
Rights and Climate Change”, Georgia Journal of International
and Comparative Law, 38(3): 511–524. (Scholar)
- Boylan, Michael (ed.), 1999, Gewirth: Critical Essays on
Action, Rationality, and Community (Studies in Social, Political,
and Legal Philosophy), Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. (Scholar)
- Brake, Elizabeth, 2022, “Rights to Belong and Rights to Be
Left Alone?: Claims to Caring Relationships and Their Limits”,
in
Brownlee, Jenkins, and Neal 2022:
211–233 (ch. 11). doi:10.1093/oso/9780198871194.003.0012 (Scholar)
- Brandt, Richard B., 1983, “The Concept of a Moral Right and Its Function”, The Journal of Philosophy, 80(1): 29–45. doi:10.2307/2026285 (Scholar)
- Brems, Eva, 2009, “Human Rights: Minimum and Maximum
Perspectives”, Human Rights Law Review, 9(3):
349–372. doi:10.1093/hrlr/ngp016 (Scholar)
- Brock, Gillian, 2020, Justice for People on the Move: Migration in Challenging Times, Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108774581 (Scholar)
- Brownlee, Kimberley, 2015, “Do We Have a Human Right to the Political Determinants of Health?”, in Cruft, Liao, and Renzo 2015: 502–514 (ch. 28). doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199688623.003.0029 (Scholar)
- –––, 2018, “Dwelling in Possibility:
Ideals, Aspirations, and Human Rights”, in
Etinson 2018b:
313–326 (ch. 9). doi:10.1093/oso/9780198713258.003.0019 (Scholar)
- –––, 2020, Being Sure of Each Other: An Essay on Social Rights and Freedoms, Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198714064.001.0001 (Scholar)
- Brownlee, Kimberley, David Jenkins, and Adam Neal
(eds), 2022, Being Social: The Philosophy of Social Human
Rights, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press.
doi:10.1093/oso/9780198871194.001.0001
- Buchanan, Allen E., 2010, Human Rights, Legitimacy, and the Use of Force, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 2013, The Heart of Human Rights, Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199325382.001.0001 (Scholar)
- Bunch, Charlotte, 1990, “Women’s Rights as Human
Rights: Toward a Revision of Human Rights”, Human Rights
Quarterly 12: 486–498. (Scholar)
- Campbell, Tom and Kylie Bourne (eds), 2017, Political and Legal Approaches to Human Rights, Abingdon/New York: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315179711 (Scholar)
- Caney, Simon, 2009, “Climate Change, Human Rights and Moral
Thresholds”, in Human Rights and Climate Change,
Stephen Humphreys (ed.), Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University
Press, 69–90. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511770722.004 (Scholar)
- Cohen, Joshua, 2004, “Minimalism About Human Rights: The Most We Can Hope For?”, Journal of Political Philosophy, 12(2): 190–213. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9760.2004.00197.x (Scholar)
- Collins, Stephanie, 2016, “The Claims and Duties of Socioeconomic Human Rights”, The Philosophical Quarterly, 66(265): 701–722. doi:10.1093/pq/pqw010 (Scholar)
- –––, 2022, “A Human Right to Relationships?”, in Brownlee, Jenkins, and Neal 2022: 31–51 (ch. 2). doi:10.1093/oso/9780198871194.003.0003 (Scholar)
- Corradetti, Claudio, 2009, Relativism and Human Rights: A Theory of Pluralistic Universalism, Dordrecht: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-9986-1 (Scholar)
- ––– (ed.), 2012, Philosophical Dimensions of Human Rights: Some Contemporary Views, Dordrecht: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-2376-4 (Scholar)
- Corrigan, Daniel P., 2022, “Political Confucianism and Human Rights”, Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture, 37: 91–116. (Scholar)
- Cranston, Maurice, 1967, “Human Rights, Real and
Supposed”, in Political Theory and the Rights of Man,
D. D. Raphael (ed.), Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press,
43–51. (Scholar)
- –––, 1973, What Are Human Rights?,
London, Bodley Head. A greatly extended version of the 1962
original. (Scholar)
- Crisp, Roger (ed.), 2014, Griffin on Human Rights, New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199668731.001.0001 (Scholar)
- Cruft, Rowan, 2005, “Human Rights, Individualism and Cultural Diversity”, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 8(3): 265–287. doi:10.1080/13698230500187151 (Scholar)
- –––, 2012, “Human Rights as Rights”, in Ernst and Heilinger 2012: 129–158. doi:10.1515/9783110263886.129 (Scholar)
- –––, 2019, Human Rights, Ownership, and the Individual, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198793366.001.0001 (Scholar)
- Cruft, Rowan, S. Matthew Liao, and Massimo Renzo
(eds), 2015, Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights
(Philosophical Foundations of Law), Oxford: Oxford University Press.
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199688623.001.0001
- Darby, Derrick, 2009, Rights, Race, and Recognition, Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511626616 (Scholar)
- Den Hartogh, Govert, 2014, “Is Human Dignity the Ground of
Human Rights?”, in The Cambridge Handbook of Human
Dignity, Marcus Düwell, Jens Braarvig, Roger Brownsword, and
Dietmar Mieth (eds), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
200–207. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511979033.025 (Scholar)
- Dershowitz, Alan M., 2004, Rights from Wrongs: A Secular
Theory of the Origins of Rights, New York: Basic Books. (Scholar)
- Donnelly, Jack, and Daniel J. Whelan, 2020, Universal Human
Rights in Theory and Practice, 6th edition, New York:
Routledge. (Scholar)
- Dworkin, Ronald, 1978, Taking Rights Seriously, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 2011, Justice for Hedgehogs, Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
- Ernst, Gerhard and Jan-Christoph Heilinger (eds),
2012, The Philosophy of Human Rights: Contemporary
Controversies, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter.
doi:10.1515/9783110263886
- Etinson, Adam, 2013, “Human Rights, Claimability and the Uses of Abstraction”, Utilitas, 25(4): 463–486. doi:10.1017/s0953820813000101 (Scholar)
- –––, 2018a, “Some Myths about Ethnocentrism”, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 96(2): 209–224. doi:10.1080/00048402.2017.1343363 (Scholar)
- ––– (ed.), 2018b, Human
Rights: Moral or Political?, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
doi:10.1093/oso/9780198713258.001.0001
- –––, 2020, “What’s So Special About Human Dignity?”, Philosophy & Public Affairs, 48(4): 353–381. doi:10.1111/papa.12175 (Scholar)
- –––, forthcoming, “The Lure of
Minimalism” in Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Human
Rights, Jesse Tomalty and Kerri Woods (eds), London:
Routledge. (Scholar)
- Feinberg, Joel, 1973, Social Philosophy (Foundations of Philosophy Series), Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice-Hall. (Scholar)
- Fellmeth, Aaron Xavier, 2016, Paradigms of International Human Rights Law, New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190611279.001.0001 (Scholar)
- Finnis, John, 2011, Natural Law and Natural Rights (Clarendon Law Series), second edition, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 2015, “Grounding Human Rights in
Natural Law”, The American Journal of Jurisprudence,
60(2): 199–225. doi:10.1093/ajj/auv013 (Scholar)
- Flikschuh, Katrin, 2011, “On the Cogency of Human Rights”, Jurisprudence, 2(1): 17–36. doi:10.5235/204033211796290335 (Scholar)
- –––, 2016, “How Far Human Rights?”, Jurisprudence, 7(1): 85–92. doi:10.1080/20403313.2016.1148425 (Scholar)
- Follesdal, Andreas, 2018, “Appreciating the Margin of
Appreciation”, in
Etinson 2018b:
269–294 (ch. 8). doi:10.1093/oso/9780198713258.003.0017 (Scholar)
- Forst, Rainer, 2007, Recht auf Rechtfertigung, Frankfurt
(am Main): Suhrkamp. Translated as The Right to Justification:
Elements of a Constructivist Theory of Justice (New Directions in
Critical Theory), Jeffrey Flynn (trans.), New York: Columbia
University Press. (Scholar)
- Gardiner, Stephen M., 2013, “Human Rights in a Hostile Climate”, in Holder and Reidy 2013: 211–230 (ch. 11). (Scholar)
- Gewirth, Alan, 1978, Reason and Morality, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 1982, Human Rights: Essays on
Justification and Applications, Chicago: University of Chicago
Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 1996, The Community of Rights,
Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
- Gheaus, Anca, 2013, “The Feasibility Constraint on The Concept of Justice”, The Philosophical Quarterly, 63(252): 445–464. doi:10.1111/1467-9213.12058 (Scholar)
- –––, 2022, “The Role of Solitude in the Politics of Sociability”, in Brownlee, Jenkins, and Neal 2022: 234–251 (ch. 12). doi:10.1093/oso/9780198871194.003.0013 (Scholar)
- Gilabert, Pablo, 2009, “The Feasibility of Basic Socioeconomic Human Rights: A Conceptual Exploration”, The Philosophical Quarterly, 59(237): 659–681. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9213.2008.590.x (Scholar)
- –––, 2010, “The Importance of Linkage Arguments for the Theory and Practice of Human Rights: A Response to James Nickel”, Human Rights Quarterly, 32(2): 425–438. doi:10.1353/hrq.0.0143 (Scholar)
- –––, 2012, From Global Poverty to Global Equality: A Philosophical Exploration, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199639717.001.0001 (Scholar)
- –––, 2018a, “Reflections on Human Rights and Power”, in Etinson 2018b: 375–399 (ch. 11). doi:10.1093/oso/9780198713258.003.0023 (Scholar)
- –––, 2018b, Human Dignity and Human Rights, Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198827221.001.0001 (Scholar)
- Glendon, Mary Ann, 2001, A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt
and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, New York: Random
House. (Scholar)
- Gould, Carol C., 2004, Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights, Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511617096 (Scholar)
- Green, Leslie, 2010, “Two Worries about Respect for Persons”, Ethics, 120(2): 212–231. doi:10.1086/651425 (Scholar)
- Griffin, James, 2008, On Human Rights,
Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press.
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199238781.001.0001
- Hart, H. L. A., 1955, “Are There Any Natural Rights?”, The Philosophical Review, 64(2): 175–191. doi:10.2307/2182586 (Scholar)
- Hassoun, Nicole, 2013, “Human Rights and the Minimally Good Life”, Res Philosophica, 90(3): 413–438. doi:10.11612/resphil.2013.90.3.6 (Scholar)
- –––, 2020a, Global Health Impact: Extending Access to Essential Medicines, New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780197514993.001.0001 (Scholar)
- –––, 2020b, “The Human Right to Health: A
Defense”, Journal of Social Philosophy, 51(2):
158–179. doi:10.1111/josp.12298 (Scholar)
- Hayden, Patrick (ed.), 2001, The Philosophy of Human Rights (Paragon Issues in Philosophy), St. Paul, MN: Paragon House. (Scholar)
- Hayward, Tim, 2005, Constitutional Environmental Rights, Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/0199278687.001.0001 (Scholar)
- Henkin, Louis, 1978, The Rights of Man Today (Gottesman
Lectures), Boulder, CO: Westview Press. (Scholar)
- Holder, Cindy and David Reidy (eds), 2013, Human
Rights: The Hard Questions, New York: Cambridge University
Press.
- Holmes, Stephen and Cass R. Sunstein, 1999, The Cost of
Rights: Why Liberty Depends on Taxes, New York: W.W. Norton. (Scholar)
- Hoover, Joe, 2016, Reconstructing Human Rights: A Pragmatist and Pluralist Inquiry into Global Ethics, Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198782803.001.0001 (Scholar)
- Hope, Simon, 2015, “Human Rights Without the Human Good?”, in Cruft, Liao, and Renzo 2015: 608–623 (ch. 34). doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199688623.003.0035 (Scholar)
- Howard, Rhoda, 1983, “The Full-Belly Thesis: Should Economic
Rights Take Priority over Civil and Political Rights? Evidence from
Sub-Saharan Africa”, Human Rights Quarterly, 5(4):
467–490. doi:10.2307/762231 (Scholar)
- Ignatieff, Michael, 2004, The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror (The Gifford Lectures), Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
- Jones, Peter, 1994, Rights, Houndmills/Basingstoke:
Macmillan. (Scholar)
- Kamm, Frances Myrna, 1986, “Harming, Not Aiding, and Positive Rights”, Philosophy & Public Affairs, 15(1): 3–32. (Scholar)
- –––, 2001, “Conflicts of Rights: Typology, Methodology, and Nonconsequentialism”, Legal Theory, 7(3): 239–255. doi:10.1017/s1352325201073025 (Scholar)
- –––, 2007, Intricate Ethics: Rights, Responsibilities, and Permissible Harm (Oxford Ethics Series), Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195189698.001.0001 (Scholar)
- Kant, Immanuel, 1785 [1996], The Metaphysics of Morals,
in Mary J. Gregor, ed., Practical Philosophy, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press,
37–108. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511813306.007. (Scholar)
- Kateb, George, 2011, Human Dignity, Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
- Kaufmann, Paulus, Hannes Kuch, Christian Neuhäuser, and
Elaine Webster (eds), 2011, Humiliation, Degradation,
Dehumanization: Human Dignity Violated (Library of Ethics and
Applied Philosophy 24), Dordrecht/New York: Springer.
doi:10.1007/978-90-481-9661-6 (Scholar)
- Kennedy, David, 2004, The Dark Sides of Virtue: Reassessing International Humanitarianism, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
- Killmister, Suzy, 2020, Contours of Dignity, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198844365.001.0001 (Scholar)
- –––, 2019, “The Warty Conception of Human
Rights”, Journal of Human Rights, 18(5): 564–578.
doi:10.1080/14754835.2019.1647099 (Scholar)
- King, Jeff, 2012, Judging Social Rights (Cambridge
Studies in Constitutional Law), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
doi:10.1017/cbo9781139051750 (Scholar)
- Kiyama, Kosuke, 2019, “Human Rights Based on Human Dignity:
Defence and Elaboration through an Examination of Andrea
Sangiovanni’s Critique”, Journal of Global
Studies, 9: 1–24. (Scholar)
- Kymlicka, Will, 1989, Liberalism, Community, and Culture, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
- ––– (ed.), 1995, The Rights of Minority
Cultures, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 2018, “Human Rights without Human Supremacism”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 48(6): 763–792. doi:10.1080/00455091.2017.1386481 (Scholar)
- Lacroix, Justine and Jean-Yves Pranchère, 2016, Le
procès des droits de l’homme: généalogie du
scepticisme démocratique (La couleur des idées),
Paris: Éditions du Seuil. Translated as Human Rights on
Trial: A Genealogy of the Critique of Human Rights (Human Rights
in History), Gabrielle Maas (trans.), Cambridge/New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2018. doi:10.1017/9781108334884 (Scholar)
- Lafont, Cristina, 2012, Global Governance and Human Rights, Amsterdam: van Gorcum. (Scholar)
- Langford, Malcolm, Andy Sumner, and Alicia Ely Yamin (eds), 2013,
The Millennium Development Goals and Human Rights: Past, Present
and Future, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
doi:10.1017/cbo9781139410892 (Scholar)
- Langford, Malcolm and Katharine G. Young (eds), 2022,
The Oxford Handbook of Economic and Social Rights, Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197550021.001.0001
- Lauren, Paul Gordon, 1998 [2003], The Evolution of
International Human Rights: Visions Seen (Pennsylvania Studies in
Human Rights), Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Second edition, 2003. (Scholar)
- Lee, Patrick and Robert P. George, 2008, “The Nature and Basis of Human Dignity”, Ratio Juris, 21(2): 173–193. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9337.2008.00386.x (Scholar)
- Letsas, George, 2006, “Two Concepts of the Margin of Appreciation”, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 26(4): 705–732. doi:10.1093/ojls/gql030 (Scholar)
- –––, 2014, “Review of Buchanan, The
Heart of Human Rights”, Notre Dame Philosophical
Reviews, 2014.05.24.
[Letsas 2014 available online] (Scholar)
- –––, 2015a, “Dworkin on Human Rights”, Jurisprudence, 6(2): 327–340. doi:10.1080/20403313.2015.1044309 (Scholar)
- –––, 2015b, “Rescuing Proportionality”, in Cruft, Liao, and Renzo 2015: 316–340 (ch. 17). doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199688623.003.0018 (Scholar)
- Liao, S. Matthew, 2015a, “Human Rights as Fundamental Conditions for a Good Life”, in Cruft, Liao, and Renzo 2015: 79–100 (ch. 3). doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199688623.003.0004 (Scholar)
- –––, 2015b, The Right to Be Loved, New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190234836.001.0001 (Scholar)
- Liao, S. Matthew and Adam Etinson, 2012, “Political and Naturalistic Conceptions of Human Rights: A False Polemic?”, Journal of Moral Philosophy, 9(3): 327–352. doi:10.1163/17455243-00903008 (Scholar)
- Locke, John, 1689, “The Second Treatise of
Government”, in Two Treatises of Government, London.
New York: Prometheus Books, 1986. (Scholar)
- Lockwood, Bert B. (ed.), 2006, Women’s
Rights: A Human Rights Quarterly Reader, Baltimore, MD: Johns
Hopkins University Press.
- Luban, David, 2015, “Human Rights Pragmatism and Human Dignity”, in Cruft, Liao, and Renzo 2015: 263–278 (ch. 14). doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199688623.003.0015 (Scholar)
- Macklin, Ruth, 2003, “Dignity is a Useless Concept,” BMJ
327(7429): 1419–1420. (Scholar)
- Maliks, Reidar and Johan Karlsson Schaffer (eds), 2017, Moral and Political Conceptions of Human Rights: Implications for Theory and Practice, Cambridge, UK/New York: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781316650134 (Scholar)
- Maritain, Jacques, 1948, “Introduction” to Human
Rights: Comments and Interpretations, Paris: UNESCO. (Scholar)
- McCrudden, Christopher, 2008, “Human Dignity and Judicial
Interpretation of Human Rights”, European Journal of
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doi:10.1093/ejil/chn043 (Scholar)
- ––– (ed.), 2013,
Understanding Human Dignity (Proceedings of the British
Academy 192), Oxford: Published for the British Academy by Oxford
University Press. doi:10.5871/bacad/9780197265642.001.0001
- Meckled-Garcia, Saladin, 2013, “Giving Up the Goods: Rethinking the Human Right to Subsistence, Institutional Justice, and Imperfect Duties”, Journal of Applied Philosophy, 30(1): 73–87. doi:10.1111/japp.12005 (Scholar)
- –––, 2015, “Specifying Human Rights”, in Cruft, Liao, and Renzo 2015: 300–315 (ch. 16). doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199688623.003.0017 (Scholar)
- Metz, Thaddeus, 2012, “African Conceptions of Human Dignity: Vitality and Community as the Ground of Human Rights”, Human Rights Review, 13(1): 19–37. doi:10.1007/s12142-011-0200-4 (Scholar)
- –––, 2010, “Human Dignity, Capital Punishment, and an African Moral Theory: Toward a New Philosophy of Human Rights”, Journal of Human Rights, 9(1): 81–99. doi:10.1080/14754830903530300 (Scholar)
- Meyer, Michael J., 1989, “Dignity, Rights, and Self-Control”, Ethics, 99(3): 520–534. doi:10.1086/293095 (Scholar)
- –––, 2001, “The Simple Dignity of Sentient Life: Speciesism and Human Dignity”, Journal of Social Philosophy, 32(2): 115–126. doi:10.1111/0047-2786.00083 (Scholar)
- Meyers, Diana T., 1985, Inalienable Rights: A Defense,
New York: Columbia University Press. (Scholar)
- ––– (ed.), 2014, Poverty,
Agency, and Human Rights, Oxford/New York: Oxford University
Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199975877.001.0001
- –––, 2016, Victims’ Stories and the
Advancement of Human Rights, New York: Oxford University
Press. (Scholar)
- Miller, David, 2012, “Grounding Human Rights”, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 15(4): 407–427. doi:10.1080/13698230.2012.699396 (Scholar)
- Miller, Richard, 2010, Global Justice: The Ethics of Poverty
and Power, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- Morsink, Johannes, 1999, The Universal Declaration of Human
Rights: Origins, Drafting, and Intent (Pennsylvania Studies in
Human Rights), Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania
Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 2009, Inherent Human Rights:
Philosophical Roots of the Universal Declaration (Pennsylvania
Studies in Human Rights), Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania
Press. (Scholar)
- Moyn, Samuel, 2010, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in
History, Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University
Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 2018, Not Enough: Human Rights in an
Unequal World, Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard
University Press. (Scholar)
- Mutua, Makau, 2002, Human Rights: A Political and Cultural
Critique (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights), Philadelphia,
PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. (Scholar)
- Nickel, James W., 2007, Making Sense of Human Rights,
second edition, Malden, MA: Blackwell. Revised and extended version of
the 1987 first edition, Berkeley, CA: University of California
Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 2008, “Rethinking Indivisibility:
Towards A Theory of Supporting Relations between Human Rights”,
Human Rights Quarterly, 30(4): 984–1001.
doi:10.1353/hrq.0.0046 (Scholar)
- –––, 2013, “Goals and Rights--Working
Together?”, in Malcolm Langford, Andy Sumner, andd Alicia Ely Yamin,
eds., The Millenium Development Goals: Past, Present, and
Future, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 37–48.
doi:10.1017/cb09781139410892 (Scholar)
- –––, 2016, “Can a Right to Health Care Be Justified by Linkage Arguments?”, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 37(4): 293–306. doi:10.1007/s11017-016-9369-5 (Scholar)
- –––, 2022a, “Linkage Arguments For and
Against Rights”, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies,
42(1): 27–47. doi:10.1093/ojls/gqab020 (Scholar)
- –––, 2022b, “Moral Grounds for Economic
and Social Rights”, in
Langford and Young 2022.
doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197550021.013.83 (Scholar)
- Nozick, Robert, 1974, Anarchy, State, and Utopia, New York: Basic Books. (Scholar)
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- United Nations
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