Publications by Members of the Connecticut / Baden-Württemberg Human Rights Research Consortium (HRRC)

2026

Chambers, Rachel, Shareen Hertel, and Cory Runstedler (2026, forthcoming). “Human rights dule diligence: Views of process, from the ground up,” Human Rights Quarterly 48(1).

“Human Rights Due Diligence Obligations under the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive.” Corporate Accountability, edited by Andra Cotiga and Eleonora Veglianti, Routledge, forthcoming 2026.

Lee, M., Chacon-Hurtado, D., Hertel, S. (2026, forthcoming) “Engineers as Problem Solvers for Sustainable Development? Exploring Students’ Learning Outcomes from Sustainability and Human Rights-Centered Approaches in Engineering Education” European Journal of Education DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ejed.70137.

Rebouche, R., & Roseman, M.J. 2026 Accessing Abortion: Global and Comparative Perspectives New York University Press, NY.

Rezwana, S., Chacon-Hurtado, D., Hertel, S., Benitez Ou, A., and Randolph, S. (2026, forthcoming). “Incorporating Human Rights into Urban Transportation Equity Conceptualization,” Transportation Reviews. DOI: 10.1080/01441647.2025.2606112.

Scherr, A. 2026 Rassismus. In: Althoff, M., Bereswill, M., Neuber, A. (eds.) Handbuch Soziale Probleme. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. 1-17 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-44905-6_33-2. 

2025

Agosti T., Baldwin A., Fried, S.T, Gher J. M., Grant M., Miller, A.M., Roseman M.J., & Were, N. 2025 When independence meets accountability: upholding non-retrogression in the human rights system Health and Human Rights 27 2 23-26 http://www.hhrjournal.org.

Çelik, E. 2025 Eine zweite Heimat: Jüdische und Anti-Nazi-Wissenschaftler*innen im türkischen Exil iz3w 411 44-45 https://www.iz3w.org/artikel/nationalsozialismus-1933-exil-tuerkei-juedisch-opposition-wissenschaft-vertreibung.

Desai, M 2025 Some reflections on “How should we think about globalization in a post-globalization era. Dialogues in Sociology https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/4CFHW2EDYEFI7XWBPXUE/full.

Desai, M. (2025). Beyond sustainable development, to sustainable societies: Insights from feminist and Indigenous theories and praxis. Sociology of Development, 11(1), 38–48. https://doi.org/10.1525/sod.2023.0049.

Hertz, N. 2025 Workplace brain surveillance: the need for new approaches to protect mental privacy and neural data? International Data Privacy Law 15 2 123–137 https://doi.org/10.1093/idpl/ipaf014.

Desai, Manisha & Hujo, Katja & Huntjens, Patrick & Mohamed, Najma. (2026). Eco-social Contracts for Sustainable, Regenerative, and Just Futures: Introduction and Overview. 10.1007/978-3-031-99109-7_2.

Joas, H. (2025). Universalismus: Weltherrschaft und Menschheitsethos (Erste Auflage, Originalausgabe.). Suhrkamp.

Lahav-Raz Y., Ben-Ner A., Tzarfati G. & Levy-Tzedek S. 2025 “Sex is not just fucking; Sex is a feeling”: Sex workers’ insights on the sociality of sex and authenticity in the age of robots Sexuality Research and Social Policy https://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-025-01146-z.

Laplante, E. 2025 Human rights and research ethics: Methods for sex workers’ rights scholarship Journal of Human Rights 24 5 626–635 https://doi.org/10.1080/14754835.2025.2545225.

Parfitt, H. and Çelik, E. 2025 Logistics platforms’ ‘new’ mode of appropriation?: An analysis of four trends from inside Germany’s Q-commerce sector. Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation 19 2 261-277 DOI: 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.19.2.0009.

Scherr, A. 2025 Menschenrechte )n: Scherr, A., Müller, S. (Eds.) Soziologische Basics. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. 231-238 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-48556-6_25.

Scherr, A. 2025 Anhaltende Vertreibung und doppelte Prekarität: Forschungsbefunde zur Situation von Geflüchteten in Jordanien In: Scherr, A. (Hrsg.): Jordanien: Einblicke und Analysen zur Situation von Geflüchteten. Weinheim und München: Beltz Juventa 20-59.

Shareen Hertel, Mark Gibney, Bonny Ibhawoh (co-editors of book below) 2025 The Role of Networks in Advancing Human Rights: Making Human Connections. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Skordas, A. 2025 Epilogue: the Delphic Oracle and a note on the beginnings Skordas, A., and Mardikian, L. (Eds), Research Handbook on the International Court of Justice, Elgar Publ. 599-602 https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788111386.

Vegh Weis, V. 2025 What Can be Done if Perpetrators are Dead or Protected by Impunity Laws? Victim-driven Lessons from Argentina in the Search of a Decolonial Turn in International Criminal Justice Journal of International Criminal Justice 23 2 249-271 https://doi.org/10.1093/jicj/mqaf033.

Vegh Weis, V. 2025 Southerning Nonpunitive and Abolitionist Feminism Abolitionist Voices 200-219 https://doi.org/10.56687/9781529224061-014.

Vegh Weis, V. 2025 The ping-pong strategy: confronting atrocities from the exile The International Journal of Human Rights 29 4 672-690 https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2024.2424400.

Vegh Weis, V. & Gómez Alcorta, Eli 2025 Jujuy: el laboratorio de la represión https://www.clacso.org/jujuy-el-laboratorio-de-la-represion/.

Webster Elaine, Desai, M, Ntona, M, and Salgado, M. 2025 Lost or Found? Human rights in socio-ecological justice narratives Open Global Rights https://www.openglobalrights.org/lost-or-found-human-rights-in-socio-ecological-justice-narratives/.

Wogenstein, S. 2025 "Die Menschenrechte haben kein Geschlecht": Hedwig Dohm’s Feminist Conception of Human Rights. German Life and Letters 78 1 108-125 https://doi.org/10.1111/glal.12435. 

2024

Chambers, Rachel, & Birchall, David. (2024). How european human rights law will reshape u.s. business. UC Law SF Business Journal, 20(1), 3-58. https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/hbuslj20&id=3&men_tab=srchresults.

Chapman, A. R. (2024). Addressing Environmental Injustices Requires a Public Health Ethics and/or Human Rights Perspective. The American Journal of Bioethics, 24(3), 33–34. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2024.2303151.

Davis Chacon-Hurtado, Kazem Kazerounian, Shareen Hertel, Jonathan Mellor, Jack Barry, and Tulasi Ravindran (2024). “Engineering for Human Rights: The Theory and Practice of a Human Rights-Based Approach to Engineering," Journal of Science, Technology and Human Values 49(4): 898-934. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/01622439231211112.

Desai, Manisha. (2024). From Invisibility towards Justice: The march of the marginalized citizens of Mumbai”. Miscellanea Geographica. 28. 10.2478/mgrsd-2023-0053.

Desai, M. (2024). ‘Making the global local’: Insights from the cities for CEDAW (C4C) campaign in the United States. Journal of Human Rights23(2), 173–184. https://doi.org/10.1080/14754835.2024.2326073

Francesco Rouhana, Jin Zhu, Davis Chacon-Hurtado, Shareen Hertel, and Amvrossios C. Bagtzoglou (2024). “The Electric Vehicle Revolution: From a Human Rights Angle” Journal of Cleaner Production 462: 142667. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.142667.

Platise, M. S. (2024). Traditional Legal Concepts under Fire? Business and Human Rights at the International, National and EU Levels. Austrian Review of International and European Law Online, 27(1), 243-276. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004705555_012.

Scherr, A. 2024 Grenzen der Inklusion. Inklusions-/Exklusionsordnungen in der funktional differenzierten Weltgesellschaft In: Blaha, K. et al.: Grenzen der Inklusion. Bielefeld: transcript 29-51 DOI: 10.14361/9783839471081-002.

Scherr, A. 2024 Welche interkulturelle Kompetenz benötigen Polizist:innen?Argumente für eine menschenrechtliche und diskriminierungskritische Ausrichtunginterkultureller Aus– und Fortbildungsmaßnahmen In: Ellebrecht, S. et al. (Hrsg.): Die Polizei in der offenen Gesellschaft. Bielefeld: transcript 175-189.

Scherr, A. 2024 The Importance of Different Living Conditions of Sinti and Roma for Strategies to Improve the Educational Situation In: Strauß, D. (eds.) RomnoKher Study 2021. Springer 117-140 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-44650-5_4.

Skordas, A and Ineli-Ciger, M. 2024 Commentary on Art. 5, Refugee Convention Zimmermann, A. and Einarsen, T. (eds), The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol - A Commentary, 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press 779-791 DOI: 10.1093/law/9780192855114.001.0001.

Skordas, A., and Ineli-Ciger, M. 2024 Commentary on Art. 7 Refugee Convention Zimmermann, A., and Einarsen, T. (Edit.), The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol - A Commentary, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press 801-840 DOI: 10.1093/law/9780192855114.001.0001.

Vegh Weis, V & Teitel, Ruti G. 2024 Transitional Justice and Human Rights The Cambridge History of Lain American Law in Global Perspective 460-484 https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009049450.007.

Vegh Weis, V. 2024 Southern Green Victimology: A Look at the Cycle of Environmental Harms, Resistance and Over-criminalisation Punishment in Latin America: Explorations from the Margins 201-218 https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83797-328-620241011.

Vegh Weis, V. 2024 Neocolonialism through donors aid. Northern-funded transitional justice entrepreneurs and the undermining of an independent victims' agenda in Kenya. Southernising Criminology 209-227 10.4324/9781003349761-14.

Vegh Weis, V. 2024 Verso una prassi meridionale all'interno della criminologia Studi sulla Questione Criminale 3 45-52 10.7383/115844.

Vegh Weis, V. 2024 Todo Preso es Político. Una Historia sobre la (In)Justicia Penal. https://www.clacso.org/todo-preso-es-politico/.

Vegh Weis, V. 2024 ¿Funcionan las cortes comunitarias para asegurar la justicia restaurativa? Observaciones de la experiencia en los Estados Unidos Entramados de Paz y Justicia en los Sistemas Penales. Hilos desde la Justicia Restaurativa 261-276.

Vegh Weis, V. 2024 Víctimas como protagonistas de la resistencia. Más allá del modelo participativo Tramas y Redes 7 101-12.

Vegh Weis, V. 2024 Los Patrones del Mal. Legados de Impunidad. Un dossier sobre Empresas y Derechos Humanos Andhes 11-14.

Vegh Weis, V. 2024 Argentina's Commitment to International Criminal Justice to Address the Crimes of the Last Dictatorship (1976-1983) International Criminal Law Review 24 5-6 575-588 https://doi.org/10.1163/15718123-bja10189.

Vegh Weis, V. 2024 Qué es la Criminología Verde? Qué es la Criminología Azul? Qué aporta la Mirada en/desde/para el Sur Global? Errepar 2-19.

Vegh Weis, V. & Cunneen, Chris 2024 Can Indigenous truth commissions overcome the legacies and contemporary effects of colonialism? A study on the Australian-Canadian experience to explore possible paths in Argentina The International Journal of Restorative Justice 7 1 43-64 10.5553/TIJRJ.000195.