Hurst Hannum (Tufts): Reinvigorating Human Rights for the Twenty-First Century. Jeremy Waldron (NYU): Human Rights: Universalism or the Integrity of a Common Enterprise? Kathryn Sikkink (Minnesota): Latin America’s Protagonist Role in Human Rights. Jasper Krommendijk (Radboud): The Domestic Impact of UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies: Bringing Parliaments to the Forefront. Conor A. Gearty on why the Human Rights Act should not be repealed. Jerg Gutmann (Hamburg), Matthias Neuenkirch (Trier), and Florian Neumeier (Marburg): Precision-Guided or Blunt? The Effects of US Economic Sanctions on Human Rights. Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Gianluca Mazzoni (Michigan): Taxation and Human Rights: A Delicate Balance. Laurence R. Helfer (Duke): Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Mapping an Evolving and Contested Relationship. The introduction to The Human Rights State: Justice Within and Beyond Sovereign Nations by Benjamin Gregg.
From Prospect, Nick Spencer on the Christian origins of human rights: The notion of human rights has increasing political salience, but is it built on sturdy philosophical ground? Samuel Moyn on humanitarianism and human rights and on the end of human rights history. Alex de Waal on writing human rights and getting it wrong. Elizabeth Becker on reporting massive human rights abuses behind a facade.
