Contents:

1. Human rights research method
Bård A. Andreassen, Hans-Otto Sano and Siobhán McInerney-Lankford

Part I Human Rights Research Methods inside Disciplines
2. The art and science of interpretation in human rights law
Martin Scheinin

3. Legal methodologies and human rights research: Challenges and opportunities
Siobhán McInerney-Lankford

4. Core principles in argumentation and understanding: Hermeneutics and human rights
Hilde Bondevik and Inga Bostad

5. Economics and human rights
Edward Anderson

6. From the normative to the transnational: Methods in the study of human rights history
Steven L. B. Jensen and Roland Burke

7. The potential of ethnographic methods for human rights research
Sally Engle Merry

Part II Human Rights Research Methods across Disciplines
8. Interdisciplinarity and multimethod research
Malcolm Langford

9. Research ethics for human rights researchers
George Ulrich

10. Comparative analyses of human rights performance
Bård A. Andreassen

11. Inside the organization. Methods of researching human rights and organizational dynamics
Hans-Otto Sano and Tomas Max Martin

12. Quantitative methods in advocacy oriented human rights research
Margaret Satterthwaite and Daniel Kacinski

13. Challenges of Human Rights Measurement
Simon Walker

14. Methods of monitoring the right to food
Kirsteen Shields

15. Social network analysis in human rights research
Anna-Luise Chané and Arjun Sharma

16. Researching discrimination
Dimitrina Petrova

17. Assessing work at the intersection of health and human rights: why? how? and who?
Laura Ferguson

18. Studying how to study human rights in plural legal contexts: An exploration of plural water laws in Zimbabwe
Anne Hellum

Index