Cristina Lafont on Sovereignty and Human Rights

New paper by Cristina Lafont:

"Sovereignty and the International Protection of Human Rights" (pdf)
(To appear in The Journal of Political Philosophy)

An earlier version of the paper was presented at a conference on “Justification beyond the State” (December 2014) at Yale University. See the conference papers here.

See also Cristina Lafont's Spinoza Lecture Series on "Global Governance and Human Rights" (pdf, 2012).

Cristina Lafont is Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University, Evanston. She is the author of  "The Linguistic Turn in Hermeneutic Philosophy" (MIT Press, 1999) and co-editor (with Hauke Brunkhorst and Regina Kreide) of "Habermas Handbuch" (Metzler Verlag, 2009).