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This list is for students and researchers interested in recent up-to-date scholarship on human rights issues. Please use it as you would reprints you request and receive through the mail from an individual author. It is designed for the purposes of education, research, and scholarly communication, and not for commercial use. Individuals may make only one copy of each Research Paper. Any other use of this site is not authorized by the author and may violate copyright.

Research Papers

Human Rights Research Papers
Download unpublished papers by leading figures in the field of human rights scholarship examining issues as diverse as culture and rights, land rights in South Africa and truth recovery in Northern Ireland.

Inquire with Richard A Wilson if you have a paper you would like him to consider: Richard.Wilson@uconn.edu.

 

Economic Rights Working Papers

About the Economic Rights Working Paper Series at the Human Rights Institute

The purpose of the series is to foster and promote research in the re-emerging area of economic rights. The series aims to be the clearinghouse for research in economic rights. It will be continuously updated. Typically, working papers in the series represent work in progress on any topic of economic rights and from any field. Published articles may also be included as a convenient way for scholars to access up-to-date research in their area of interest. In all cases the copyrights for the papers included in the series remain with the author or, if previously published, with the author and/or publisher. Those interested in submitting papers to the series should contact Lanse Minkler, Director of Socio-Economic Rights at the Human Rights Institute, at Alanson.Minkler@uconn.edu.

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Graduate Student Human Rights Research Papers

Jeffrey T. Smith, University of Connecticut, Dept. of Political Science

“The Politics of Universal Jurisdiction, Legal Accountability and the Case against Donald Rumsfeld”

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Recently Added Papers

Jane K. Cowan, University of Sussex

“Fixing National Subjects in 1920’s Southern Balkans: Also an International Practice”

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Jane K. Cowan, University of Sussex

“The Supervised State”

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Mark Goodale, George Mason University and Sally Engle Merry, New York University

“The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law Between the Global and the Local”

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Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Canada Research Chair International Human Rights, Wilfrid Laurier University

“Reparations for the Slave Trade: Rhetoric, Law, History and Political Realities”

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Elizabeth Jelin, Marsha Lilien Gladstein Visiting Professor of Human Rights, Spring 2006, CONICET-IDES Buenos Aires, Argentina

“Memories of state violence: the past in the present”

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Archived Papers

Thomas Cushman, Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College

“Human Rights' Thomas Cushman. In the Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology, Bryan Turner, Ed.,”

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Paul Betts, Department of History, University of Sussex

"Germany, International Justice and the 20th Century"

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Jane K. Cowan, Department of Anthropology, University of Sussex, 
Marie-Bénédicte Dembour, Sussex Law School, University of Sussex  and Richard Wilson, Director, Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut

Culture and Rights Anthropological Perspectives

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Hon. Richard J. Goldstone, Harvard Law School

"The Tension between Combating Terrorism and Protecting Civil Rights"

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Brandon Hamber, Research Associate of Democratic Dialogue in Belfast, Northern Ireland and the Center for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation in South Africa

Rights and Reasons: Challenges for Truth Recovery in South Africa and Northern Ireland

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www.brandonhamber.com

Brandon Hamber, Research Associate of Democratic Dialogue in Belfast, Northern Ireland and the Center for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation in South Africa and Richard Wilson, Director, Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut

Symbolic closure through memory, reparation and revenge in post-conflict societies

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www.brandonhamber.com

David Held, Department of Government, London School of Economics and Co-director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance

“Globalization, International Law and Human Rights”, Lecture presented on September 20, 2005 for the Human Rights Institute – University of Connecticut

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Shareen Hertel, Human Rights Institute & Department of Political Science,University of Connecticut

The Private Side of Global Governance

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Journal of International Affairs website

Deborah James, Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics

"Human Rights" or “Property"? State, society and the landless in South Africa

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Kathryn Libal, Department of Women Studies, University of Connecticut

“Children’s Rights in Turkey”

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Diana Meyers, Department of Philosophy, University of Connecticut

“Rights in Collision: A Non-Punitive, Compensatory Remedy for Abusive Speech," Law and Philosophy, 14 (2), 1995: 203-243. Also reprinted in Being Yourself: Essays on Identity, Action, and Social Experience (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004)

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Aryeh Neier, President Open Society Institute

"How not to Promote Democracy and Human Rights"

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U. Roberto (Robin) Romano, Filmmaker, Photographer and Human Rights Educator

“Reports from the Frontlines: Child Slaves in the Cocoa Fields of the Ivory Coast”

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Heather M. Smith, University of California, San Diego

"Global Human Rights Institutions and Regional Diffusion"

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Richard Wilson, Director, Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut

Blackwell Companion to the Anthropology of Politics

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Economic Rights Working Papers

Graduate Student Human Rights Research Papers

Recently Added Papers

Archived Papers

 

 

 
           
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