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The real world of human rights

Eric Blumenson (Suffolk): Four Challenges Confronting a Moral Conception of Universal Human Rights. From the forthcoming Human Rights: Moral or Political?, ed. Adam Etinson, Samuel Moyn (Columbia): Human Rights in Heaven; and John Tasioulas (UCL): Philosophizing the Real World of Human Rights: A Reply to Samuel Moyn. Jeanne M. Woods (Loyola): Theorizing Peace as a Human Right. David J. Luban (Georgetown): Human Rights Pragmatism and Human Dignity. Keith E. Schnakenberg (WUSTL) and Christopher J. Fariss (Penn State): Dynamic Patterns of Human Rights Practices. Emilie Marie Hafner-Burton (UCSD): A Social Science of Human Rights. James Ron and David Crow (CIDE) and Shannon Golden (Notre Dame): Who Trusts Local Human Rights Organizations? Evidence from Three World Regions; and Who Knows About Human Rights? Survey Evidence from Four Countries. Sammy Adelman (Warwick): Human Rights and Climate Change. From the Revista de Estudos Constitucionais, Hermeneutica e Teoria do Direito, Peter Fitzpatrick (Birkbeck): The Revolutionary Past: Decolonizing Law and Human Rights; and Jose Manuel Barreto (Humboldt): Human Rights and Emotions from the Perspective of the Colonised: Anthropofagi, Legal Surrealism and Subaltern Studies. Ioana Cismas (NYU): The Intersection of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, and Civil and Political Rights. The introduction to The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Commentary, Cases and Materials, ed. Ben Saul, David Kinley, and Jacqueline Mowbray. The U.N.'s new human rights chief has a pretty tall task ahead of him — is Prince Zeid up to the job?