1. Charles Beitz, The Idea of Human Rights (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).
2. Samantha Besson, “The Erga Omnes Effect of the European Court of Human Rights,” in La Cour européenne des droits de l’homme après le Protocole 14: premier bilan et Perspectives/The European Court of Human Rights after Protocol 14: Preliminary Assessment and Perspectives, ed. Samantha Besson (Schulthess, 2011), pp. 125–75.
3. Samantha Besson, “Human Rights: Ethical, Political … or Legal? First Steps in a Legal Theory of Human Rights,” in Donald Earl Childress III (ed.), The Role of Ethics in International Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 211–45.
4. Samantha Besson, “Justifications,” in Daniel Moeckli, Sangeeta Shah, and Sandesh Sivakumaran (eds.), International Human Rights Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 34–52.
5. Thomas Christiano, “An Argument for Democratic Equality,” in Thomas Christiano (ed.), Philosophy and Democracy: An Anthology (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 39–68.