Review Essays
Topical Foci: Universality of Human Rights
Universal Human Rights and Cultural Diversity by Hilde Hey
Human Rights: New Perspectives, New Realities, edited by Adamantia Pollis and Peter Schwab. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2000. 259pp.
Universality by Consensus: The Evolution of Universality in the Drafting of the UDHR
by Amy Eckert
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Origins, Drafting & Intent, by Johannes Morsink. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights), 2000. 400pp.
Opening the Dichotomy of Universalism and Relativism by Chih-yu Shih
Negotiating Culture and Human Rights edited by Linda S. Bell, Andrew J. Nathan and Ilan Peleg. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. 428pp.
East Meets West: Human Rights and Democracy in East Asia by Daniel A. Bell. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. 369pp.
The Global and the Local: Reconciling Universal Human Rights and Cultural Diversity
by Amy Eckert
Human Rights and Global Diversity edited by Simon Caney and Peter Jones. Portland, OR: Frank Cass & Co., 2001. 173 pp.
Cultural Pluralism and Dilemmas of Justice by Monique Deveaux. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. 205 pp.
Defending the Universality and Timelessness of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A View from the 'Developing World' by Shaista Shameem
Human Rights: Concepts, Contests, Contingencies edited by Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001. 144pp.
Questioning the Universality of Human Rights By Paul J. Magnarella
Universal Human Rights? edited by Robert G. Patman. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. 244pp.
Dealing with Human Rights: Asian and Western Views on the Value of Human Rights edited by Martha Meijer. Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2001. 183pp.
The Philosophy of Human Rights by Patrick Hayden. St. Paul: Paragon House, 2001. 686pp.
Affirming Universal Human Rights By Richard Falk
Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice (Second Edition) by Jack Donnelly. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003. 290pp.
Practicing Universality: The Inter-Disciplinary Imperatives of Human Rights By Andrew Fagan
Human Rights: Universality in Practice by Peter R. Baehr. Hampshire, UK: Palgrave, 2001. 178pp.
Internationally-Protected Human Rights: Fact or Fiction? By Paul J. Magnarella
Theory and Reality in the International Protection of Human Rights by J. Shand Watson. Ardsley, New York: Transnational Publishers, 1999. 340pp.
The Mobilization of Shame: A World View of Human Rights by Robert F. Drinan, S.J. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. 256pp.
Globalization and the Construction of Universal Human Rights By Eric K. Leonard
The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era by Micheline R. Ishay. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.
Constructing Human Rights in the Age of Globalization edited by Mahmood Monshipouri, Neil Englehart, Andrew J. Nathan and Kavita Philip. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2003.
Beyond Power Politics: International Law and Human Rights Discourse in the Post-9/11 World By J. Peter Pham
Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law by Antony Anghie. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 356 pp.
Exploring Universal Rights: A Symposium Contributors: Jamie Mayerfeld, Brooke Ackerly, Henry Shue, Jack Donnelly, Kok-Chor Tan, and Charles Beitz
Which Rights Should Be Universal? by William J. Talbott . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2005. 232pp.
The Universality of Human Rights: A Response By William J. Talbott
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