The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Human Rights

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Human Rights is an outstanding resource covering key questions, problems, and debates in scholarship on the nature, justification, authority and relevance of human rights.

Jesse Tomalty is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bergen, Norway. Her research focuses on normative and conceptual questions about global justice and human rights. She has published articles on a range of themes including socio-economic human rights, global poverty, the nature of human rights, and the ethics of immigration.
Kerri Woods is Associate Professor of Political Theory and Deputy Head of the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds. She has research interests in human rights theory and feminist political theory. Her publications include Human Rights (2014) and Human Rights and Environmental Sustainability (2010).