Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
The issue of human rights has in our time come to dominate headlines and profoundly affect relations among nations and peoples. Drawing from the work of top authorities from the fields of international law, political science, international relations, and advocacy studies, volumes in the series shed light on a complex array of human rights topics, from genocide to reproductive freedom, from education to statistical measurement, in regions from China to Guatemala.
Series Editor:
Bert B. Lockwood
Professor and Director, Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights, University of Cincinnati College of Law
Staff Editorial Contact:
Walter Biggins, Editor-in-Chief
wbiggins@upenn.edu
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Human Rights in Latin America
A Politics of Transformation
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512822700
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Paperback
344 Pages
For decades, Latin America has been plagued by civil wars, dictatorships, torture, legacies of colonialism, racism, and inequality. The region has also experienced dramatic—if uneven—human rights...
Human Rights as Human Independence
A Philosophical and Legal Interpretation
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9780812253948
Pub Date: April 2022
Format: Hardcover
200 Pages
Can human rights be claimed against agents other than states, such as transnational corporations and global governance institutions? Does the authority of human rights depend on international law-making,...
Human Rights and Transnational Democracy in South Korea
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9780812253597
Pub Date: March 2022
Format: Hardcover
360 Pages
Drawing on previously unused or underutilized archival sources, this book offers the first account of the historical intersection between South Korea's democratic transition and the global human...
For the Love of Humanity
The World Tribunal on Iraq
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780812225235
Pub Date: February 2022
Format: Paperback
240 Pages
On February 15, 2003, millions of people around the world demonstrated against the war that the United States, the United Kingdom, and their allies were planning to wage in Iraq. Despite this being...
Article by Article
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights for a New Generation
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812225037
Pub Date: December 2021
Format: Paperback
208 Pages
The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is one of the most important and debated sociopolitical documents of the twentieth century. A leading authority on the UDHR, Johannes Morsink...
Fighting Machines
Autonomous Weapons and Human Dignity
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9780812253559
Pub Date: December 2021
Format: Hardcover
264 Pages
Lethal autonomous weapons are weapon systems that can select and destroy targets without intervention by a human operator. Fighting Machines explores the relationship between lethal autonomous...
Science as a Cultural Human Right
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512822939
Pub Date: September 2022
Format: Hardcover
208 Pages
The human right to science, outlined in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and repeated in the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, recognizes everyone’s...
Time for Reparations
A Global Perspective
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812225044
Pub Date: September 2021
Format: Paperback
384 Pages
In this sweeping international perspective on reparations, Time for Reparations makes the case that past state injustice—be it slavery or colonization, forced sterilization or widespread...
Power, Participation, and Private Regulatory Initiatives
Human Rights Under Supply Chain Capitalism
Price: $37.50
ISBN: 9780812253313
Pub Date: July 2021
Format: Paperback
368 Pages
From unsafe working conditions in garment manufacturing to the failure to consult indigenous communities with regard to extractive industries that affect them, human rights violations remain a pervasive...
Thin Sympathy
A Strategy to Thicken Transitional Justice
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9780812253160
Pub Date: May 2021
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
Transitional justice, commonly defined as the process of confronting the legacies of past human rights abuses and atrocities, often does not produce the kinds of results that are imagined. In multiethnic,...

Human Rights in Latin America
A Politics of Transformation
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512822700
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Paperback
344 Pages
Human Rights as Human Independence
A Philosophical and Legal Interpretation
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9780812253948
Pub Date: April 2022
Format: Hardcover
200 Pages
Human Rights and Transnational Democracy in South Korea
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9780812253597
Pub Date: March 2022
Format: Hardcover
360 Pages
For the Love of Humanity
The World Tribunal on Iraq
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780812225235
Pub Date: February 2022
Format: Paperback
240 Pages
Article by Article
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights for a New Generation
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812225037
Pub Date: December 2021
Format: Paperback
208 Pages
Fighting Machines
Autonomous Weapons and Human Dignity
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9780812253559
Pub Date: December 2021
Format: Hardcover
264 Pages
Science as a Cultural Human Right
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512822939
Pub Date: September 2022
Format: Hardcover
208 Pages
Time for Reparations
A Global Perspective
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812225044
Pub Date: September 2021
Format: Paperback
384 Pages
Power, Participation, and Private Regulatory Initiatives
Human Rights Under Supply Chain Capitalism
Price: $37.50
ISBN: 9780812253313
Pub Date: July 2021
Format: Paperback
368 Pages
Thin Sympathy
A Strategy to Thicken Transitional Justice
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9780812253160
Pub Date: May 2021
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages