David Álvarez is Political Philosopher currently working at the University of Vigo, Spain; former Fulbright postdoc at Yale; and Corresponding Fellow at the Yale Global Justice Program. His research interests include theories of cosmopolitanism, social movements, and metropolitan theory.João Cardoso Rosas is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society at the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. His research interests include the philosophy of human rights, theories of justice, political ideologies, and aspects in the history of modern political philosophy.

• Introduction: Developments and Challenges for a Political Idea of Human Rights, 1. The practice and its authority: an elaboration, 2. Are human rights associative rights? The debate between humanist and political conceptions of human rights revisited, 3. Human rights practices, 4. Add international courts to The Idea of Human Rights and stir … on Beitz’ The Idea of Human Rights after 10 years, 5. Charles Beitz’ idea of human rights and the limits of law, 6. Global (in)justice and the human right to housing. A practice-based approach, 7. Which practice? – Rescuing the practical conception of human rights, 8. Long-term urgent interests and human rights practice: a challenge to the political conception

David Álvarez is Political Philosopher currently working at the University of Vigo, Spain; former Fulbright postdoc at Yale; and Corresponding Fellow at the Yale Global Justice Program. His research interests include theories of cosmopolitanism, social movements, and metropolitan theory.João Cardoso Rosas is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society at the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. His research interests include the philosophy of human rights, theories of justice, political ideologies, and aspects in the history of modern political philosophy.

• Introduction: Developments and Challenges for a Political Idea of Human Rights, 1. The practice and its authority: an elaboration, 2. Are human rights associative rights? The debate between humanist and political conceptions of human rights revisited, 3. Human rights practices, 4. Add international courts to The Idea of Human Rights and stir … on Beitz’ The Idea of Human Rights after 10 years, 5. Charles Beitz’ idea of human rights and the limits of law, 6. Global (in)justice and the human right to housing. A practice-based approach, 7. Which practice? – Rescuing the practical conception of human rights, 8. Long-term urgent interests and human rights practice: a challenge to the political conception

David Álvarez is Political Philosopher currently working at the University of Vigo, Spain; former Fulbright postdoc at Yale; and Corresponding Fellow at the Yale Global Justice Program. His research interests include theories of cosmopolitanism, social movements, and metropolitan theory.João Cardoso Rosas is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society at the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. His research interests include the philosophy of human rights, theories of justice, political ideologies, and aspects in the history of modern political philosophy.

• Introduction: Developments and Challenges for a Political Idea of Human Rights, 1. The practice and its authority: an elaboration, 2. Are human rights associative rights? The debate between humanist and political conceptions of human rights revisited, 3. Human rights practices, 4. Add international courts to The Idea of Human Rights and stir … on Beitz’ The Idea of Human Rights after 10 years, 5. Charles Beitz’ idea of human rights and the limits of law, 6. Global (in)justice and the human right to housing. A practice-based approach, 7. Which practice? – Rescuing the practical conception of human rights, 8. Long-term urgent interests and human rights practice: a challenge to the political conception