Human Rights Law: A Basic Bibliography
By Patrick S. O’Donnell
Department of Philosophy
Santa BarbaraCityCollege (2006)
Agosín, Marjorie, ed. Women, Gender, and Human Rights: A Global Perspective.New Brunswick,
NJ: RutgersUniversity Press, 2001.
Allen, Robin and Rachel Crasnow. Employment Law and Human Rights.New York: Oxford
University Press, 2002.
Alston, Philip. The United Nations and Human Rights: A Critical Appraisal. Oxford, UK: Clarendon
Press, 1992.
Alston, Philip. Promoting Human Rights through Bills of Rights: Comparative Perspectives.
New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 2000.
Alston, Philip, ed. Labour Rights as Human Rights.New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 2005.
Alston, Philip and James Heenan. Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Bibliography.The Hague:
Martinus Nijhoff, 2006.
Alston, Philip and James Crawford, eds. The Future of UN Human Rights Treaty Monitoring.
Cambridge, UK: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2000.
Alston, Philip, Stephen Parker and John Seymour, eds. Children, Rights and the Law. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1993 (with corrections).
Alston, Philip and Mary Robinson, eds. Human Rights and Development: Towards Mutual
Reinforcement. New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 2005.
Anaya, S. James. Indigenous Peoples in International Law. New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 1996.
Andreassen, Bård A. and Stephen P. Marks, eds. Development as a Human Right: Legal, Political and
Economic Dimensions. Cambridge, MA: Harvard School of Public Health, François-Xavier
BagnoudCenter for Health and Human Rights/Harvard University Press, 2006.
An-Na‘im, Abdullahi A., ed. Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspectives: A Quest for Consensus.
Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992.
An-Na‘im, Abdullahi A., ed. Cultural Transformation and Human Rights in Africa. London: Zed
Books, 2002.
Annas, George J. American Bioethics: Crossing Human Rights and Health Law Boundaries.New York:
OxfordUniversity Press, 2005.
Arambulo, Kitty. Strengthening the Supervision of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights: Theoretical and Procedural Aspects. Oxford, UK: Hart, 1999
Askin, Kelly D. and Dorean M. Koenig, eds. Women and International Human Rights Law, 3 Vols.,
Ardsley, NY: Transnational Publ., 2000.
Baderin, Mashood A. International Human Rights and Islamic Law. New York: OxfordUniversity
Press, 2003.
Bailey, Sydney D. The UN Security Council and Human Rights. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994.
Banda, Fareda. Women, Law and Human Rights: An African Perspective.Oxford, UK: Hart, 2005.
Bartlett, Peter, ed. Mental Disability and the European Convention on Human Rights.Leiden:
E.J. Brill, 2006.
Bauer, Joanne R. and Daniel A. Bell, eds. The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights.Cambridge,
UK: CambridgeUniversity Press, 1999.
Bayefsky, Anne F. The UN Human Rights Treaty System: Universality at the Crossroads.Ardsley, NY:
Transnational Publ., 2001.
Beddard, Ralph. Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Progress and Achievement. Baskingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan, 1991.
Bell, Lynda S., Andrew J. Nathan, and Ilan Peleg, eds. Negotiating Culture and Human
Rights. New York: ColumbiaUniversity Press, 2001.
Bernhardt, Rudolf and John Anthony Jolowicz, eds. International Enforcement of Human Rights.
Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1987.
Boerefijn, Ineke. The Reporting Procedure Under the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights:
Practices and Procedure of the Human Rights Committee.Oxford, UK: Hart, 1999.
Broomhall, Bruce. International Justice & The International Criminal Court: Between Sovereignty and
the Rule of Law. New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 2003.
Brownlie, Ian and Guy S. Goodwin-Gill, eds. Basic Documents on Human Rights. New York:
OxfordUniversity Press, 5th ed., 2006.
Brysk, Alison, ed. Globalization and Human Rights.Berkeley, CA: University of California Press,
2002.
Bullard, Robert D., ed. The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of
Pollution. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 2005.
Campbell, Tom, Jeffrey Goldsworthy, and Adrienne Stone, eds. Protecting Human Rights:
Instruments and Institutions. New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 2003.
Cassese, Antonio. Human Rights in a Changing World. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1990.
Chandler, David. From Kosovo to Kabul and Beyond: Human Rights and International Intervention.
London: Pluto Press, 2006 ed.
Chandler, David, ed. Rethinking Human Rights: Critical Approaches to International Politics.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
Chapman, Audrey and Sage Russell, eds. Core Obligations: Building a Framework for Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights. New York, Transnational Publ., 2002.
Chatterjee, Deen K. and Don E. Scheid, eds. Ethics and Foreign Intervention. Cambridge, UK:
CambridgeUniversity Press, 2003.
Chesterman, Simon. Just War or Just Peace? Humanitarian Intervention and International Law. New
York: OxfordUniversity Press, 2001.
Clapham, Andrew. Human Rights in the Private Sphere.New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 1994.
Clapham, Andrew. Human Rights Obligations of Non-State Actors.New York: OxfordUniversity
Press, 2006.
Claude, Richard Pierre and Burns H. Weston, eds. Human Rights in the World Community: Issues
and Action. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2nd ed., 1992.
Clayton, Richard and Hugh Tomlinson. The Law of Human Rights. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2nd ed., 2006.
Çoban, Ali Riza. Protection of Property Rights within the European Convention on Human Rights.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.
Conte, Alex, Scott Davidson, and Richard Burchill. Defining Civil and Political Rights: The
Jurisprudence of the United Nations Human Rights Committee.Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.
Cook, Rebecca J., ed. Human Rights of Women: National and International Perspectives.Philadelphia,
PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.
Cook Rebecca J., Bernard M. Dickens and Mahmoud F. Fathalla. Reproductive Health and Human
Rights: Integrating Medicine, Ethics and Law. New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 2003.
Cottier, Thomas, Joost Pauwelyn, and Elisabeth Bürgi, eds. Human Rights and International
Trade.New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 2005.
Cowan, Jane K., Marie-Bénédicte Dembour, and Richard A, Wilson, eds. Culture and Rights:
Anthropological Perspectives. Cambridge, UK: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2001.
Cranston, Maurice. What Are Human Rights?London: Bodley Head, 1973.
Craven, Matthew C.R. The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights:
A Perspective on Its Development. New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 1995.
Dalacoura, Katerina. Islam, Liberalism and Human Rights.London: I.B. Tauris, revised ed.,
2003.
Darrow, Mac. Between Light and Shadow: The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and
International Human Rights Law. Oxford, UK: Hart, 2003.
Davidson, Scott. The Inter-American Human Rights System.Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1997.
de Wet, Erika. The Constitutional Enforceability of Economic and Social Rights: The Meaning of the
German Constitutional Model for South Africa. London: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1996.
Dijk, Pieter van. Theory and Practice of the European Convention on Human Rights. The Hague:
Kluwer Law International, 1998.
Donnelly, Jack. Human Rights in Theory & Practice.Ithaca, NY: CornellUniversity Press, 2nd ed.,
CornellUniversity Press, 2003.
Donnelly, Jack. International Human Rights. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 3rd ed., 2006.
Drzemczewski, Andrew Z. European Human Rights Convention in Domestic Law: A Comparative
Study. New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 1983.
Dunne, Tim and Nicholas J. Wheeler, eds. Human Rights in Global Politics.Cambridge, UK:
CambridgeUniversity Press, 1999.
Eldridge, Phil. Politics of Human Rights in Southeast Asia.London: Routledge, 2002.
Emberland, Marius. The Human Rights of Companies: Exploring the Structure of ECHR Protection.
New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 2006.
Erman, Eva. Human Rights and Democracy: Discourse Theory and Global Rights Institutions.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.
Evans, Carolyn. Freedom of Religion under the European Convention on Human Rights.New York:
OxfordUniversity Press, 2001.
Evans, Tony. The Politics of Human Rights: A Global Perspective.London: Pluto Press, 2nd ed.,
2005.
Falk, Richard A. Human Rights Horizons: The Pursuit of Justice in a Globalizing World.New York:
Routledge, 2000.
Flekkøy, Målfrid Grude and Natalie Hevener Kaufman. The Participation Rights of the Child:
Rights and Responsibilities in Family and Society. London: Jessica Kingsley Publ., 1997.
Foot, Rosemary. Rights Beyond Borders: The Global Community and the Struggle Over Human
Rights in China. New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 2000.
Forsythe, David P. Human Rights in International Relations. Cambridge, UK: CambridgeUniversity
Press, 2000.
Fortin, Jane. Children’s Rights and the Developing Law. Cambridge, UK: CambridgeUniversity
Press, 2nd ed., 2003.
Franklin, Bob, ed. The New Handbook of Children’s Rights: Comparative Policy and Practice.London:
Routledge, 2nd ed., 2002.
Frost, Mervyn. Constituting Human Rights: Global Civil Society and the Society of Democratic States.
London: Routledge, 2002.
Gearty, Conor. Principles of Human Rights Adjudication.New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 2004.
Gewirth, Alan. Human Rights.Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1982.
Goldewijk, B. Klein, A. Contreras Baspineiro and P. Cesar Carbonari. Dignity and Human Rights:
The Implementation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.Ardsley, NY: Transnational
Publ., 2002.
Gostin, Lawrence O. and Zita Lazzarini. Human Rights and Public Health in the AIDS Pandemic.
Oxford, UK: OxfordUniversity Press, 1997.
Gready, Paul and Jonathan Ensor, eds. Reinventing Development? Translating Rights-Based
Approaches from Theory to Practice. London: Zed Books, 2006.
Greer, Steven. The European Convention on Human Rights: Achievements, Problems and Prospects.
Cambridge, UK: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2006.
Guilhot, Nicolas. The Democracy Makers: Human Rights and the Politics of Global Order. New York:
ColumbiaUniversity Press, 2005.
Harris, David and Stephen Livingstone, eds. The Inter-American System of Human Rights. New
York: OxfordUniversity Press, 1998.
Hathaway, James C. The Rights of Refugees under International Surface.Cambridge, UK:
CambridgeUniversity Press, 2005.
Hayden, Patrick, ed. The Philosophy of Human Rights.St. Paul, MN: Paragon House, 2001.
Henkin, Louis. The Age of Rights.New York: ColumbiaUniversity Press, 1990.
Hilsdon, Anne-Marie, et al., eds. Human Rights and Gender Politics: Asia-Pacific Perspectives.
London: Routledge, 2000.
Hodgson, Douglas. The Human Right to Education.Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998.
Holzgrefe, J.L. and Robert O. Keohane, eds. Humanitarian Intervention: Ethical, Legal, and Political
Dilemmas. Cambridge, UK: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2003.
Hunt, Paul. Reclaiming Social Rights: International and Comparative Perspectives. Aldershot,
Dartmouth Publ., 1996.
Ife, Jim. Human Rights and Social Work: Towards Rights-Based Practice.Cambridge, UK:
CambridgeUniversity Press, 2001.
Ignatieff, Michael (Amy Gutmann, ed.). Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry. Princeton, NJ:
PrincetonUniversity Press, 2001.
Ignatieff, Michael, ed. American Exceptionalism and Human Rights.Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 2005.
Janis, Mark, Richard Kay, and Anthony Bradley. European Human Rights Law: Texts and Materials.
New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 2nd ed., 2001.
Jayawickrama, Nihal. The Judicial Application of Human Rights Law: National, Regional, and
International Jurisprudence.Cambridge, UK: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2002.
Jokic, Aleksander, ed. Humanitarian Intervention: Moral and Philosophical Issues.Orchard Park, NY:
Broadview Press, 2003.
Joseph, Sarah, Jenny Schultz, and Melissa Castan. The International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights: Cases, Materials, and Commentary. New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 2004.
Keal, Paul. European Conquest and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: The Moral Backwardness of
International Society. Cambridge, UK: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2003.
Kent, Ann E. China, the United Nations, and Human Rights: The Limits of Compliance.Philadelphia,
PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
Kent, George. Freedom From Want: The Human Right to Adequate Food. Washington, DC:
GeorgetownUniversity Press, 2005.
Keown, Damien V., Charles S. Prebish, and Wayne R. Husted, eds. Buddhism and Human Rights.
Richmond, England, 1998.
Kolodziej, Edward A., ed. A Force Profonde: The Power, Promise, and Politics of Human Rights.
Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.
Korey, William. NGOs and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: ‘A Curious Grapevine.’
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998.
Kymlicka, Will, ed. The Rights of Minority Cultures.New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 1995.
Landman, Todd. Protecting Human Rights: A Comparative Study.Washington, DC: Georgetown
University Press, 2005.
Langlois, Anthony J. The Politics of Justice and Human Rights: Southeast Asia and Universalist Theory.
Cambridge, UK: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2001.
Lauren, Paul Gordon. The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen.Philadelphia, PA:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.
Lester, Lord and D. Oliver, eds. Constitutional Law and Human Rights. London: Butterworths, 1997.
Lijnzaad, Liesbeth. Reservations to UN Human Rights Treaties: Ratify or Ruin?Dordrecht: Nijhoff,
1995.
Lillich, Richard B., Hurst Hannum, S. James Anaya, and Dinah L. Shelton. International Human
Rights: Problems of Law, Policy, and Practice.New York: Aspen, 4th ed., 2006.
Mahoney, Jack. The Challenge of Human Rights: Origin, Development, and Significance.Malden, MA:
Blackwell, 2007.
Mahoney, Kathleen E. and Paul Mahoney, eds. Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century:
A Global Challenge.Dordrecht: Nijhoff, 1993.
Marks, Stephen P. Health and Human Rights: Basic International Documents.The François-Xavier
BagnoudCenter for Health and Human Rights, HarvardSchool of Public Health/
HarvardUniversity Press, 2nd ed., 2006.
Martin, Francisco Forrest, et al.,International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law: Treaties,
Cases, and Analysis. Cambridge, UK: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2006.
Mayer, Ann Elizabeth. Islam and Human Rights: Tradition and Politics.Boulder, CO: Westview
Press, 4th ed., 2006.
McGoldrick, Dominic. The Human Rights Committee: Its Role in the Development of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 1991.
Meron, Theodor. Human Rights and Humanitarian Norms as Customary International Law. New
York: OxfordUniversity Press, 1989.
Meron, Theodor, ed. Human Rights in International Law: Legal and Policy Issues.New York: Oxford
Merry, Sally Engle. Human Rights & Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice.
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
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Mowbray, Alastair. The Development of Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human
Rights by the European Court of Human Rights. Oxford, UK: Hart, 2004.
Mullally, Siobhan. Gender, Culture and Human Rights: Reclaiming Universalism. Oxford, UK: Hart,
2006.
Neyroud, Peter and Alan Beckley. Policing, Ethics and Human Rights.Portland, OR: Willan Publ.,
2001.
Nickel, James W. Making Sense of Human Rights. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2nd ed., 2006.
Niezen, Ronald. The Origins of Indigenism: Human Rights and the Politics of Identity. Berkeley, CA:
University of California Press, 2003.
Nino, Carlos Santiago. The Ethics of Human Rights.New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 1991.
Nowak, Manfred. Introduction to the International Human Rights Regime.Leiden: Brill Academic,
2003.
Oráa, Jaime. Human Rights in States of Emergency in International Law.New York: Oxford
University Press, revised ed., 1992.
Orend, Brian. Human Rights: Concept and Context.Orchard Park, NY: Broadview Press, 2002.
Orford, Anne. Reading Humanitarian Intervention: Human Rights and the Use of Force in International
Law. Cambridge, UK: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2003.
Ouguergouz, Fatsah (H.L. Sutcliffe, tr.). The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights: A
Comprehensive Agenda for Human Dignity and Sustainable Democracy in Africa. The Hague:
Kluwer Law International, 2003.
Ovey, Clare and Robin C.A. White. Jacobs & White, The European Convention on Human Rights.
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Owen, Nicholas, ed. Human Rights, Human Wrongs.New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 2002.
Pasqualucci, Jo M. The Practice and Procedure of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
Cambridge, UK: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2003.
Perry, Michael J. The Idea of Human Rights: Four Inquiries.New York: OxfordUniversity Press,
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Pogge, Thomas W. World Poverty and Human Rights.Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002.
Power, Samantha and Graham Allison, eds. Realizing Human Rights: Moving from Inspiration to
Impact. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.
Provost, René. International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press, 2002.
Ramcharan, B.G. The Security Council and the Protection of Human Rights.The Hague:
Kluwer Law International, 2002.
Ratner, Steven R. and Jason S. Abrams. Accountability for Human Rights Atrocities in International
Law: Beyond the Nuremberg Legacy. New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 2nd ed., 2001.
Reichert, Elisabeth. Social Work and Human Rights: A Foundation for Policy and Practice. New York:
ColumbiaUniversity Press, 2003.
Risse, Thomas, Stephen C. Ropp, and Kathryn Sikkink, eds. The Power of Human Rights:
International Norms and Domestic Change. Cambridge, UK: CambridgeUniversity Press,
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Robertson, A.H. and J.G. Merrills. Human Rights in the World: An Introduction to the Study of the
International Protection of Human Rights. Manchester: ManchesterUniversity Press, 1989.
Roht-Arriaza, Naomi, ed. Impunity and Human Rights in International Law and Practice.New York:
OxfordUniversity Press, 1995.
Rowe, Peter. The Impact of Human Rights Law on Armed Forces. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press, 2006.
Salman, Salman M.A. and Siobahn McInerney-Lankford. The Human Right to Water: Legal and
Policy Dimensions. Washington, DC: The International Bank for Reconstruction and
Development/The World Bank, 2004.
Schoenberger, Karl. Levi’s Children: Coming to Terms with Human Rights in the Global Marketplace.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000.
Scott, Craig, ed. Torture as Tort: Comparative Perspectives on the Development of Transnational Tort
Litigation.Oxford, UK: Hart, 2001.
Sellers, M. The New World Order: Sovereign Human Rights and the Self-Determination of Peoples.
Oxford, UK: Berg, 1996.
Shelton, Dinah. Remedies in International Human Rights Law. New York: OxfordUniversity Press,
2nd ed., 2005.
Shue, Henry. Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policy.Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 2nd ed., 1996.
Sigler, Jay A. Minority Rights: A Comparative Analysis.Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983.
Sohn, Louis. Guide to Interpretation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights. Ardley, NY: Transnational Publ., 1993.
Steiner, Henry J. and Philip Alston. International Human Rights in Context: Law, Politics, Morals.
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Steiner, Niklaus, Mark Gibney, and Gil Loescher, eds. Problems of Protection: The UNHCR,
Refugees and Human Rights.New York: Routledge, 2003.
Sullivan, Rory, ed. Business and Human Rights: Dilemmas and Solutions. Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf
Publ., 2003.
Talbott, William J. Which Rights Should Be Universal?New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 2005.
Taylor, Paul M. Freedom of Religion: UN and European Human Rights Law and Practice.Cambridge,
UK: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2005.
Teson, Fernando R. Humanitarian Intervention: An Inquiry into Law and Morality.Ardsley, NY: