The Haitian Revolution of 1791–1804 led to the establishment of Haiti as the world's first
independent Black Republic and has long held a fascination for a diverse array of writers …

To rethink human rights when they have become little more than hollow ideology in the
hands not only of nation-states but of the UN as well requires a radical change in …

Abstract Unlike the American and French Revolutions, the Haitian Revolution was the first in
a modern state to implement human rights universally and unconditionally. Going well …

In an article on “Culture, Religion, and Gender” the Israeli professor of law Frances Raday
(b. 1944) takes a clear stance with regard to religion and human rights. Human rights as we …

Today both the history and philosophical grounding of human rights are matters of great
controversy. One prominent figure in the debate is Samuel Moyn, professor of law and …

In the past ten years, the debate over the crisis in human rights has been waged within
academic literature from political science, international relations, and legal and political …

By the end of the eighteenth century, the French colony of Saint Domingue, the foundation of
France's colonial empire and the foremost wealth-producing colony of its time, had become …

This essay reconsiders anti-foundationalism, the majority position in human rights theory,
not once more from a rationalist foundationalist perspective but from a post-secular …

Pre-modern societies did not develop a comprehensive idea of the human species. Free
men were Athenians or Spartans, Romans or Carthaginians, but not members of humanity; …

A major theme of the current “Haitian turn” has been what the author calls a “universality
analysis,” which stresses that the Haitian Revolution, in contrast to the American and the …