Human Rights on the Edge: The Future of International Human Rights Law and Practice

This book grapples with the challenges inherent in an uncertain period for global human rights and explores the future of international human rights law and practice. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Human Rights.

Heather Smith-Cannoy is a Political Scientist at Arizona State University, where she directs the Global Human Rights Hub and the undergraduate degree program on Social Justice and Human Rights. She has published three books, and 15 articles and book chapters on human rights, international law, sex trafficking and gender.

Tricia Redeker Hepner is a Political and Legal Anthropologist at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on migration and displacement, transnationalism, human rights, transitional justice, militarism, and conflict/peace. She has published four books and more than twenty peer-reviewed journal articles or chapters. She directs ASU’s Master’s Program in Social Justice and Human Rights.