General Reading List: This is a list of texts which it will be useful to have access to it is entirely comprised – of books. I will assign chapters/papers from these more specifically. Jack Donnelly, Third Edition, Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice, Cornell University Press, 2013. ed. By Rowan Cruft, S. Matthew Liao, Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights, and Massimo Renzo, Oxford University Press, 2015. Henry Shue, Second Basic Rights: Subsitence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policy, Edition, Princeton University Press, 1996. James Griffin, Oxford University Press, 2008. On Human Rights, Topics: Week 1: Introduction and What are rights? Required: Leif Wenar, Nature of Rights’ in Vol. 33, No. 3 Philosophy & Public Affairs, ‘The (Summer 2005). H. L. A. Hart There Any Natural Rights?’ in No. 64, Philosophical Review, ‘Are (1955). Ronald Dworkin, Rights Seriously’ in (Bloomsbury: Taking Rights Seriously, ‘Taking 1977). Joseph Raz, The Nature of Rights, in Vol. 93, No. 370, (April, 1984). Mind, ‘On Recommended: Charles Beitz, Human Rights Mean’ in Vol. 132, No. 1 (Winter, Daedalus ‘What 2003). Hillel Steiner, Rights and the Diversity of Value’ in Critical Review of ‘Human Vol. 15, No. 4 (2012). International Social and Political Philosophy, Matthew H. Kramer, the Interest Theory of Rights’ in The American ‘Refining Vol. 55, (2010). Journal of Jurisprudence, Week 2: Positive versus Negative Rights Required:
General Reading List: This is a list of texts which it will be useful to have access to – it is entirely comprised of books. I will assign chapters/papers from these more specifically. Jack Donnelly, Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice, Third Edition, Cornell University Press, 2013. Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights, ed. By Rowan Cruft, S. Matthew Liao, and Massimo Renzo, Oxford University Press, 2015. Henry Shue, Basic Rights: Subsitence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policy, Second Edition, Princeton University Press, 1996. James Griffin, On Human Rights, Oxford University Press, 2008. Topics: Week 1: Introduction and What are rights? Required: Leif Wenar, ‘The Nature of Rights’ in Philosophy & Public Affairs, Vol. 33, No. 3 (Summer 2005). H. L. A. Hart ‘Are There Any Natural Rights?’ in Philosophical Review, No. 64, (1955). Ronald Dworkin, ‘Taking Rights Seriously’ in Taking Rights Seriously, (Bloomsbury: 1977). Joseph Raz, ‘On The Nature of Rights, in Mind, Vol. 93, No. 370, (April, 1984). Recommended: Charles Beitz, ‘What Human Rights Mean’ in Daedalus Vol. 132, No. 1 (Winter, 2003). Hillel Steiner, ‘Human Rights and the Diversity of Value’ in Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Vol. 15, No. 4 (2012). Matthew H. Kramer, ‘Refining the Interest Theory of Rights’ in The American Journal of Jurisprudence, Vol. 55, (2010). Week 2: Positive versus Negative Rights Required:
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