Developments and Challenges for a Political Idea of Human Rights

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Acknowledgments

We are grateful to the contributors for their commitment and patience in this very uncertain times, and to all the participants in the 10^th Braga Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy where these discussions took place, celebrating also the 10^th anniversary of The Idea of Human Rights. We are of course, firstly and deeply grateful to Chuck Beitz for his pioneering scholarship, for his sincere and generous engagement in the discussions and with this project.

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Notes

1. Most notably, Maliks and Schaffer (2017) and Etison (2018). Also interesting Baynes (2009) and Cruft et al. (2015).

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Notes on contributors

David Álvarez

David Álvarez is a Political Philosopher currently working at the Department of Sociology, Political Science & Philosophy, University of Vigo. He has previously been a postdoctoral fellow at the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, and Fulbright postdoctoral researcher at Yale University. He is also corresponding fellow at the Yale Global Justice Center. His research interests focus on cosmopolitanism, regimes of toleration, metropolitan theory, and social movements.

João Cardoso Rosas

João Cardoso Rosas is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy and director of the Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society, at the University of Minho. He has previously been president of the Portuguese Political Science Association and of the Portuguese Philosophical Society. His most recent book is (ed.), História da Filosofia Política [History of Political Philosophy], Lisbon, 2020. His research interests focus on human rights, distributive justice, ideological pluralism, and aspects in the history of modern political philosophy.