Universal Human Rights: Moral Order in a Divided World (Philosophy and the Global Context)

Universal Human Rights brings new clarity to the important and highly contested concept of universal human rights. This collection of essays explores the foundations of universal human rights in four sections devoted to their nature, application, enforcement, and limits, concluding that shared rights help to constitute a universal human community, which supports local customs and separate state sovereignty. The eleven contributors to this volume demonstrate from their very different perspectives how human rights can help to bring moral order to an otherwise divided world.

David A. Reidy is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee. He is theauthor of many articles and chapters in political philosophy and thephilosophy of law and on Rawls in particular. He is the author of On the Philosophy of Law (2006), and the co-editor, with Cindy Holder, of Human Rights: The Hard Questions (2012) and, with Jon Mandle, of The Blackwell Companion to Rawls (2013) and The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon (2014).

 Mortimer N. S. Sellers is Regents Professor of the University System of Maryland and director of the Center for International & Comparative Law.