Michael J. Perry (Emory): The Morality of Human Rights. Jeremy Waldron (NYU): Human Rights: A Critique of the Raz/Rawls Approach. Jeremy K. Kessler (Yale): The Invention of a Human Right: Conscientious Objection at the United Nations, 1947-2011. Jubril Agbolade Shittu (Babcock): Sovereignty, Human Rights and the Global Land Grab. Going global with a twist: Olivier Beys on making human rights a universal tool. Competitive suffering: As we focus on a particularly appalling human rights problem within its own context, we must remember the old labor slogan that “an injury to one is an injury to all”. Human rights, past their sell-by date: It is activists, not states who will make a difference in future — but western-led rights organizations may have seen their day. Adam Lupel on debating the use of force: When should we intervene to stop mass atrocities? Prophet without honors: Raphael Lemkin helped make genocide illegal — so why haven't you heard of him? Lucas Van Milders reviews Rwanda and The Moral Obligation of Humanitarian Intervention by Joshua James Kassner. Is this the face of a new global human rights movement? Controversial son of Venezuela’s elite Thor Halvorssen brings a Cold War sensibility to the chaotic 21st century. The introduction to Human Rights in the Constitutional Law of the United States by Michael J. Perry.
