This volume explores the application of human rights to higher education through a critical lens. Combining theoretical and applied perspectives, it asks what a human rights framework grounded in liberation and justice can offer to ways of working and teaching practices in higher education.

Introduction: Emancipatory Human Rights and the University Part 1: Theory 1. What Do Human Rights Have to Do With It? Links Between the University and the Human Rights Regime 2. Critique and Disputations: Human Rights, Africanisation, Decolonisation, and the Project of Decentred Critical University Studies 3. Epistemic Violence and Human Rights in the American Academy 4. Decolonial Human Rights Education in the University Sector: Critical Possibilities Part 2: Looking Inside the University 5. Centering the Humanity of Student Activists: Pedagogy as Resistance to Neoliberalism in U.S. Higher Education 6. Universities as Sites of Protection: Insights from the Global South on Gender-Based Violence 7. A Feminist Lens on Gender Equality in High-Rank Research Positions at the National Autonomous University of Mexico 8. Human Rights Curriculum Programming in South African Universities Part 3: Looking Outside the University 9. Emancipatory Scholarship and Emancipatory Human Rights: The Transition Township Project - Lessons for University and Community Partnerships 10. Critical Transformative Migration Studies and Higher Education in Emergencies (HEiE) 11. Bringing Human Rights into the Heart of Psychology and Social Work Education 12. Human Rights in U.S. Professional Education: Identifying and Overcoming Challenges Conclusion: Contestations, Synergies and Some Ways Forward