Human rights: moral or political?

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Notes

1 Joseph Raz, ‘Human Rights without Foundations’ in Samantha Besson and John Tasioulas (eds), The Philosophy of International Law (Oxford University Press 2010) 336–37.

2 Seyla Benhabib, ‘Moving beyond False Binarisms: On Samuel Moyn’s The Last Utopia’ (2013) 22(1) Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences 81.

3 Allen Buchanan, The Heart of Human Rights (Oxford University Press 2013).

4 Rowan Cruft, S. Matthew Liao, and Massimo Renzo, Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights (Oxford University Press 2015).

5 Ethics 120, no. 4 (2010): 647–760 <https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/603567?refreqid=excelsior%3A477803f337b32b3b2307aed6bc9b3ea4>.

6 James Griffin, On Human Rights (Oxford University Press 2008).

7 Allen Buchanan, Justice, Legitimacy and Self-determination: Moral Foundations for International Law (Oxford University Press 2004).

8 See in particular Samantha Besson, ‘Human Rights: Ethical, Political … or Legal? First Steps in a Legal Theory of Human Rights’ in Donald Earl Childress (ed), The Role of Ethics in International Law (Cambridge University Press 2012).

9 James W. Nickel, Making Sense of Human Rights (John Wiley & Sons 2007).

10 John Tasioulas, ‘The Moral Reality of Human Rights’ in Thomas Pogge (ed), Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right (Oxford University Press 2004).

11 John Rawls, The Law of Peoples: With ‘The Idea of Public Reason Revisited’ (Harvard University Press 2001).

12 Samuel Moyn, ‘Human Rights in Heaven’ 71 [this volume].

13 Charles Beitz, The Idea of Human Rights (Oxford University Press 2009). See also Charles Beitz, ‘Human Dignity in the Theory of Human Rights: Nothing But a Phrase?’ (2013) 41(3) Philosophy & Public Affairs 259.

14 Beitz, The Idea of Human Rights (n 13) 8–9.

15 ibid 109.

16 Moyn, Human Rights in Heaven 73 [this volume].

17 ibid 82.

18 ibid.

19 ibid 85.

20 ibid.

21 See in particular John Tasioulas, ‘Taking Rights out of Human Rights’ (2010) 120(4) Ethics 647. See also John Tasioulas, ‘Towards a Philosophy of Human Rights’ (2012) 65(1) Current Legal Problems 1.

22 ‘“Philosophizing the Real World of Human Rights”: A Reply to Samuel Moyn’ 98.

23 For more on this project, see in particular John Tasioulas, ‘Human Rights, Legitimacy, and International Law’ (2013) 58(1) The American Journal of Jurisprudence 1.

24 See Griffin (n 6) 37.

25 See Raz (n 1).

26 Jeremy Waldron, ‘Human Rights: A Critique of the Raz/Rawls Approach’ 141 [this volume].

27 ibid.

28 ibid.

29 James Nickel, ‘Assigning Functions to Human Rights: Methodological Issues in Human Rights Theory’ 146 [this volume].

30 ibid 148.

31 ibid.

32 ibid 158.

33 Adam Etinson, ‘On Being Faithful to the “Practice”: A Response to Nickel’ 168 [this volume].

34 ibid 169.

35 Andrea Sangiovanni, ‘The Concept of Human Rights: The Broad View’ 176 [this volume].

36 ibid 176.

37 Rainer Forst, ‘Human Rights in Context: A Comment on Sangiovanni’ 202 [this volume].

38 ibid 203.

39 In the context of the dispute, see in particular Forst, ‘The Justification of Human Rights and the Basic Right to Justification’ [this volume].

40 Raz (n 1) 336–37.

41 Allen Buchanan and Gopal Sreenivasan, ‘Taking International Legality Seriously: A Methodology for Human Rights’ [this volume].

42 See Beitz, The Idea of Human Rights (n 13) chapter 2.

43 I have elaborated on this point in my review of Buchanan’s The Heart of Human Rights. See Alain Zysset, ‘The Heart of Human Rights, Written by Allen Buchanan’ (2017) 86(2) Nordic Journal of International Law 267.

44 ibid 213.

45 ibid 221.

46 Mattias Kumm, ‘The Turn to Justification: On the Structure and Domain of Human Rights Practice’ [this volume].

47 Andreas Follesdal, ‘Appreciating the Margin of Appreciation’ [this volume].

48 See in particular Andreas Follesdal, ‘Survey Article: Subsidiarity’ (1998) 6(2) Journal of Political Philosophy 190. See also Andreas Follesdal, ‘Subsidiarity and International Human-rights Courts: Respecting Self-governance and Protecting Human Rights – Or Neither?’ (2016) 79(2) Law and Contemporary Problems 147.

49 See for instance Mattias Kumm, ‘The Idea of Socratic Contestation and the Right to Justification: The Point of Rights-based Proportionality Review’ (2010) 4(2) Law & Ethics of Human Rights 142.

50 Andreas Follesdal, ‘Appreciating the Margin of Appreciation’ 289.

51 ibid.

52 Kumm, ‘The Turn to Justification: On the Structure and Domain of Human Rights Practice’ 249.

53 ibid 242.

54 ibid 258.

55 See Alain Zysset, The ECHR and Human Rights Theory: Reconciling the Moral and the Political Conceptions (Routledge 2016).

56 See for instance Theresa Squatrito. Oran Young, Andreas Follesdal, and Geir Ulfstein, eds, The Performance of International Courts and Tribunals (Cambridge University Press 2018).