The human rights regime is one of modernity's great civilizing triumphs. From the formal promulgation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 to th

In this powerful collection by one of today's leading African American intellectuals, Keeping Faith situates the current position of African Americans, tracing

One of modernity's great civilizing triumphs, human rights, still endures sustained attempts at disenfranchisement. Linda Hogan defends human rights language wh

Chief Justice John Marshall argued that a constitution "requires that only its great outlines should be marked [and] its important objects designated." Ours is

This collection of essays addresses human rights in relation to the historical settings in which its language was drafted and adopted.