Philosophy of Human Rights

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (reference resource).

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (reference resource).

United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld, “Some Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning,” Yale Law Journal 23, 1913, pp. 20–59 (without footnotes).

Jacques Maritain, The Rights of Man and Natural Law. Centenary Press, 1944.

Immanuel Kant, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, translated by Mary Gregor, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2011, chapter 2.

Hugo Grotius, On the Law of War and Peace, student edition edited by Stephen Neff, translated by Francis Kelsey, Cambridge University Press, 2012: book 1, chapter 3, §§7–18; book 2, chapter 20, §§1–9, 38–44, and chapter 25.

Slavoj Žižek, “Against Human Rights,” New Left Review 34, 2005, pp. 115–131.

Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political, expanded edition translated by George Schwab, University of Chicago Press, 2007, chapters 6–8.

Cristina Lafont, “Human Rights, Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect,” Constellations 22, 2015, pp. 68–78.

Thomas Nagel, “The Problem of Global Justice,” Philosophy & Public Affairs 33, 2005, pp. 113–147.

Alexander Julius, “Nagel’s Atlas,” Philosophy & Public Affairs 34, 2006, pp. 176–192.

Robert Goodin, “What Is So Special about Our Fellow Countrymen?,” Ethics 98, 1988, pp. 663–686.

Eric Posner, The Twilight of Human Rights Law, Oxford University Press, 2014, chapter 5.