HUMAN RIGHTS – ERIC POSNER

I debate with Professor Ian Hurd. I chose to define “human rights” as human rights law. He used a more capacious definition, treating “human rights” as any moral assertion by oppressed pe...

http://ericposner.com/are-human-rights-dead/

A Guest Post by Adam Chilton. In 1946, the United Nations created an organization charged with promoting and protecting human rights around the world called the Commission on Human Rights (CHR)...

http://ericposner.com/human-rights-juries-at-the-united-nations/

A Guest Post by Adam Chilton and Mila Versteeg.  The world’s constitutions have increasingly included commitments to protect social and economic rights. For example, as the figure above shows...

http://ericposner.com/rights-without-resources/

A Guest Post by Adam Chilton: Are the number of women on a country’s Olympic team a good proxy for women’s rights in that country? Yesterday, Ryan Briggs–a political scientist at Virginia T...

http://ericposner.com/olympic-participation-and-womens-rights/

Adam Chilton and I have posted a new paper that criticizes some recent studies that suggest that they do. We show in our paper that once one takes into account time trends, the positive results d...

http://ericposner.com/do-human-rights-treaties-make-a-difference-part-n/

I explain why people overestimate the risk posed by the Syrian refugees in Slate. I argue that the xenophobia/nativism/bigotry arguments are unfair.

http://ericposner.com/the-syrian-refugee-crisis/

For the past few years, I’ve been flogging the idea that money spent to enforce human rights would be more productively devoted to development aid. I make this argument in a book; and I have de...

http://ericposner.com/whats-the-best-use-for-human-rights-watchs-budget/

The human development index (HDI) was developed in the wake of Amartya Sen’s critique of development policy that is oriented toward GDP growth. Sen argued that development policy should promote...

http://ericposner.com/the-human-development-index/

You can read an interview of me here (if you speak Dutch).

http://ericposner.com/vrij-nederland-interview/

A joint post by Adam Chilton & Eric Posner: In a new working paper–The Influence of History on States’ Compliance with Human Rights Obligations—we argue that scholars studying human rights...

http://ericposner.com/the-influence-of-history-on-human-rights/