The critique of human rights has proliferated in critical legal thinking over recent years,
making it clear that we can no longer uncritically approach human rights in their liberal form …

Recent histories of human rights have shown that the turn to human rights as a form of
politics occurred as a placeholder for utopian energies at the end of history, coinciding with …

This chapter addresses the radical potential of human rights. It sketches the contours of the
idea of 'righting', which is the resistant excess of human rights. Righting describes the …

Debate over the theory of rights has recently reemerged, with a confrontation between
postfoundational writings that challenge the very discourse of rights and Habermasians (and …

Human rights are a suspect project–this seems the only sensible starting point today. This
suspicion, however, is not absolute and the desire to preserve and reform human rights …

With the emergence of modern human rights in the Universal Declaration, what remained of
a radical political potential of the discourse withdrew: statism and individualism became its …

Today, governments and international institutions claim human rights as one of the essential
pillars of the international system, and they are proclaimed in the same breath as peace …

This paper examines the idea of human rights, and how they should be justified. It begins by
reviewing Peter Jones's claim that the purpose of human rights is to allow people from …

For the past fifteen years I have been puzzled by the extent to which human rights have
become the language of progressive politics. Indeed, for many years after the Second World …

The concept of human rights remains a challenging concept and some of its aspects have
yet to be further explored. As James Griffin notes in the introduction to his book, On Human …