Articles by M. Victoria Costa

Hi everyone,

A graduate student of mine is interested in doing some research on the topic of human rights.  I was wondering if anyone could recommend a good review article that presents the main debates in the contemporary literature on human rights, or a book that does the same.  I am not interested in a book that primarily offers its own distinctive take on the issue.  Rather, I would like something to help this student start to navigate the literature.

Thanks a lot for any ideas.

Victoria

Social Theory and Practice has just published its 2008 special issue, guest-edited by Ingrid Robeyns and Adam Swift.  The title is “Social Justice: Ideal Theory, Nonideal Circumstances.”

Other recent special issues include “Virtue and Social Diversity” (2007) and “Cosmopolitanism and the State (2006).

Here is the URL of the journal: http://www.fsu.edu/~philo/STP/index.html.