Human rights can be understood as moral or political. This volume shows how this distinction matters for theory and practice.

Expanding the debate on moral and political approaches to the philosophy of human rights Johan Karlsson Schaffer and Reidar Maliks; Part I: 1. Theory, politics, and practice: methodological pluralism in the philosophy of human rights Kristen Hessler; 2. The point of the practice of human rights: international concern or domestic empowerment? Johan Karlsson Schaffer; 3. Rawl's relational conception of human rights Luise Katharina Müller; 4. Theories of human rights: political or orthodox - why it matters Andreas Follesdal; 5. Mediating the theory and practice of human rights in morality and law David Ingram; 6. Kantian human rights or how the individual has come to matter in international law Howard Williams; Part II: 7. Human rights solidarity: moral or political? Seth Mayer; 8. When the practice gets complicated: human rights, migrants and political institutions Jelena Belic; 9. Can naturalistic theories of human rights accommodate the indigenous right to self-determination? Kerstin Reibold; 10. Political conceptions of human rights and corporate responsibility Daniel P. Corrigan; 11. Socio-economic rights: between essentialism and egalitarianism Malcolm Langford.