LibGuides: Human Rights : Secondary Resources

Print Resources

These books are available in the Delaware Law School Library. The Widener Library catalog is available here.

Business and Human Rights : advising clients on respecting and fulfilling human rights / Alan S. Gutterman. Chicago, Illinois : American Bar Association, Business Law Section, [2020]
A Research Agenda for Human Rights / edited by Michael Stohl, Alison Brysk. Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2020]
International Human Rights in a Nutshell / Thomas Buergenthal, Dinah Shelton, David P. Stewart, Carlos M. Vázquez. St. Paul, MN : West Academic Publishing, [2017]
International Human Rights Litigation : a guide for judges / David Nersessian. [Washington, D.C.] : Federal Judicial Center, 2016. (also available online)
The International Human Rights Law Sourcebook / Andrew Borene, Alice Beauheim Borene, and Michael Sullivan. Chicago : American Bar Association, 2014.
Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice Cambridge [UK] ; New York : Cambridge University University Press, c2013.

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E-books

These E-books are available to Widener University Students via password access.

Sarah J Summers, Sentencing and Human Rights: The Limits on Punishment (2022)
Gauthier de Beco, Disability in International Human Rights Law (2021)
Johanna Bond, Global Intersectionality and Contemporary Human Rights (2021)
David Langtry, Kirsten Roberts Lyer, National Human Rights Institutions: Rules, Requirements, and Practice (2021)
William A. Schabas, The Customary International Law of Human Rights (2021)
Jan Wouters, Michal Ovádek The European Union and Human Rights: Analysis, Cases, and Materials (2021)
Dapo Akande, Jaakko Kuosmanen, Helen McDermott, Dominic Roser (eds.) Human Rights and 21st Century Challenges: Poverty, Conflict, and the Environment (2020)
Claire Fenton-Glynn, Children and the European Court of Human Rights (2020)
Kjersti Lohne, Advocates of Humanity: Human Rights NGOs in International Criminal Justice (2019)
Steven Wheatley, The Idea of International Human Rights Law (2019)

Congressional Research Service Reports

Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports are written for Congress on a huge variety of topics and can be a great source of research and information. The nonpartisan CRS Reports are available to search online here. Below is a sample of available Human Rights CRS Reports.

Domestic Issues
- R46742|The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Reauthorization: Issues for Congress (3/31/21)
- LSB10606|The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and On-the-Street Police Encounters (6/8/21)
- IF11572|Police Accountability Measures (6/11/20)
International Issues
- RL33608|The United Nations Human Rights Council: Background and Policy Issues (1/26/22)
- R46981|The Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act: Scope, Implementation, and Considerations for Congress (12/3/21)
- R46860|Nicaragua in Brief: Political Developments and U.S. Policy (6/3/22)
- R45303|India: Religious Freedom Issues (8/30/18)
- R46792|Coup in Burma: Implications for Congress (5/12/21)

Subscription Resources: Law Reviews and Journals

These Online Resources are available to Widener University Students via password access.

Law Reviews and Journals
- Indexes- indexes help organize articles by subject. Using an index can help you find articles that might be missed with keyword searching.
  - CILP (Current Index to Legal Periodicals) issues are are published on Mondays weekly (HeinOnline). To view the list of articles indexed with the Subject :Human Rights Law, choose an issue and click the link for :HTML Subject List, then scroll to Human Rights Law
  - Index to Legal Periodicals and Books (EbscoHost)
- Human Rights Journals by Title. Keep in mind that Human Rights articles may be published in a wide variety of publications, not just those that specialize in Human Rights, so it may be useful to search HeinOnline's Journal Collection or to use an index linked above. The first 4 journals are the most often cited, the remaining are listed in alphabetical order.

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