Human Rights at a Crossroads

Series editors: Meghan Campbell, University of Birmingham and Sandra Fredman, University of Oxford 

This series offers a new outlet for high-quality human rights monographs and edited collections which   aims to make an impact on human rights law, policy and practice. The series focuses on exploring emerging global challenges such as economic inequality, the climate crisis and the rise of AI decision-making, from a human rights perspective, as well as stubborn obstacles such as the lack of legal recognition of socio-economic rights in the UK or the continued gender pay gap. 

The series takes a human rights approach to the deepest challenges facing the world and seeks to understand how law can offer tools to transform oppressive institutions and achieve social justice for all. The series is international in scope examining how international, regional and national human rights systems can help or hinder efforts to achieve human rights for all. The books in the series will bring jurisdictions that are chronically understudied, particularly from the Global South, into the global human rights conversation. 

Since human rights touch upon every aspect of life, the series explores scholarship in a wide range of areas including education, employment, environment, economic policy, family, health, business and tax, social care, immigration, asylum and refugee processes, social welfare, religion, family life, violence, equality, race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age, poverty, class and the role of courts, governments, legislative bodies and cultural and political movements. Human Rights at a Crossroads cuts across traditional divides in legal scholarship to explore how human rights can and should function in a multitude of contexts and draws on a range of methodological approaches.  

Scholarship accepted for the series will be theoretically grounded and have high relevance to a range of decision-making forums. 

If you would like to submit a proposal, or to discuss ideas, then please contact Meghan Campbell, m.campbell.1@bham.ac.uk and Sandra Fredman, sandra.fredman@law.ox.ac.uk.