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• Andreas von Arnauld; Decken, Kerstin von der; Susi, Mart, eds.: 2020, The Cambridge Handbook of New Human Rights: recognition, novelty, rhetoric, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 978-11084847
• Alison Bisset: 2020, Blackstone's International Human Rights Documents, 12, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 9780198860921
• Morten Kjaerum, Martha F. Davis, and Amanda Lyons, eds.: 2021, COVID-19 and Human Rights, Routledge Studies in Human Rights, London and New York, 322, 9780367688035
• Johannes Morsink: 1999, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Origins, Drafting, and Intent, University of Pennsylvania Press, 400, 9780812217476
• Johannes Morsink: 2012, Inherent Human Rights: Philosophical Roots of the Universal Declaration., University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 328, 9780812202854
• Ethna Regan: 2010, Theology and the Boundary Discourse of Human Rights, Georgetown University Press, Washington, DC, 256, 9781589016583
• William A. Schabas, ed.: 2013, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: The Travaux Préparatoires (3 volumes), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,
• Ackerly, Brooke A.: 2008, Universal Human Rights in a World of Difference, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,
• Amadiume, Ifi, and Abdullahi A. An-Na’Im, eds.: 2000, The Politics of Memory: Truth, Healing and Social Justice, Zed Books, London and New York,
• An-Na’im, Abdullahi A. ed: 1995, Human Rights in Cross Cultural Perspectives: A Quest for Consensus, University of Pennsylvania Press,
• Benhabib, Seyla: 2004, The Rights of Others, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,
• De Beco, Gauthier: 2021, Disability in International Human Rights Law, Oxford University Press,
• Donnelly, Jack: 2003, Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice, 2nd ed., Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London,
• Etzioni, Amitai: 1995, The Spirit of Community: Rights, Responsibilities, and the Communitarian Agenda, Fontana Press, London,
• Falk, Richard: 2000, Human Rights Horizons: The Pursuit of Justice in a Globalizing World, Routledge, London,
• Gewirth, Alan: 1996, The Community of Rights, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London,
• Glendon, Mary Ann: 2001, A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Random House Trade Paperbacks, New York,
• Graupner, Helmut & Phillip Tahmindjis, eds: 2014, Sexuality and Human Rights: A Global Overview, Routledge, New York,
• Greenberg, Karen J. and Joshua L. Dratel: 2005, The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,
• Hayner, Priscilla B: 2001, Unspeakable Truths: Confronting State Terror and Atrocity, Routlege, London and New York,
• Holzgrefe, J.L. and Robert O. Keohane, eds.: 2003, Humanitarian Intervention: Ethical, Legal, and Political Dilemmas, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,
• Ignatieff, Michael: 2001, Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry, Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford,
• Lockwood, B.B., ed.: 2006, Women’s Rights: a human rights quarterly reader, John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD,
• Madhok, Sumi: 2021, Vernacular Rights Cultures: The Politics of Origins, Human Rights and Gendered Struggles for Justice, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 9781108961844
• Minow, Martha: 1998, Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History after Genocide and Mass Violence., Beacon Press, Boston,
• Nordlander, Linnéa: 2023, Human Rights and Climate Change: The Law on Loss and Damaage, Routledge Studies in Human Rights, London and New York, 9781032416793
• O’Neill, Onora: 2000, Bounds of Justice, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,
• Oh, Irene: 2007, The Rights of God: Islam, Human Rights, and Comparative Ethics, Georgetown University Press, Washington, DC,
• Pogge, Thomas: 2008, World Poverty and Human Rights: Cosmopolitan Responsibilities and Reforms, 2nd edition, Polity, Cambridge,
• Rawls, John: 1971, A Theory of Justice, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
• Sen, Amartya: 2009, The Idea of Justice, Allen Lane, London,
• Sen, Amartya: 1999, Development As Freedom, Oxford University Press, Oxford,
• Skinner, Quentin: 1998, Liberty before Liberalism, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,
• Robert C. Solomon,Mark C. Murphy: 2000, What is Justice? Classic and Contemporary Readings, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, USA, 350, 9780195128109
• Tierney, Brian: 2001, The Idea of Natural Rights, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan and Cambridge, U.K,
• Waldron, Jeremy: 1987, “Nonsense Upon Stilts” Bentham, Burke and Marx on the Rights of Man, Menthuen, London and New York,
• Wilson, Richard Ashby, ed: 2005, Human Rights in the ‘War on Terror’, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,
• Witte, John Jr: 2007, The Reformation of Rights: Law, Religion, and Human Rights in Early Modern Calvinism, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,
• Wollstonecraft, Mary. Sylvia Tomaselli, ed.: 1995, A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,
• Wolterstorff, Nicholas: 2008, Justice: Rights and Wrongs, Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford,

• Key and topic-specific articles will be given each week from e.g.: 0, Human Rights Quarterly,

• Topic-specific links will be recommended during the module, e.g.: 2023, https://www.un.org/en/,