Universal Human Rights

David A. Reidy is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Tennessee.Mortimer N. S. Sellers is Regents Professor of the University System of Maryland and director of the Center for International & Comparative Law.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionPart 2 Part I:The Nature of Human RightsChapter 3 The Structure of Arguments for Human RightsChapter 4 Human Rights: Constitutional and InternationalChapter 5 Universalism and Relativism in Human RightsPart 6 Part II:The Particular in Universal Human RightsChapter 7 Are Women Human? Feminist Reflections on "Women's Rights as Human Rights"Chapter 8 Human Rights and the Ethic of ListeningChapter 9 Rights Against Institutions: What Governments Should and Can DoPart 10 Part III:Enforcing Universal Human RightsChapter 11 Human Rights and Humanitarian InterventionChapter 12 Genocide and Political ResponsibilityChapter 13 Human Rights and the Rule of Law: Sovereignty and the International Criminal CourtPart 14 Rights in ExtremisChapter 15 Is Terrorism Ever Morally Permissible? An Inquiry into the Right to LifeChapter 16 Thwarting Suicide Terrorists: The Locus of Moral Constraints and the (Ir)Relevance of "Human Rights"

Although human rights discourse is becoming the recognized lingua franca of international relations, differences of justification, interpretation, application and enforcement abound. This set of original essays throws fresh light on these differences while clearly exemplifying the greater importance of the basic similarities that all parties to the debate share.