This volume takes stock of the seminal contribution of Charles Beitz to the so-called "political turn" in the philosophy of human rights, whose origins are in t

This volume showcases the work of a new generation of scholars interested in the historical connection between religion and human rights in the twentieth centur

This book consists of two parts: “The Law of Peoples,” a major reworking of a much shorter article by the same name published in 1993, and the essay “The

Human rights have become one of the most important moral concepts in global political life over the last 60 years. Charles Beitz, one of the world's leading phi