Organized Section 36: Best Book Award

Human Rights Section Award Recipients

Best Book Award
The competition is open to all books on human rights that were written by a political scientist and published in the previous two years.

2015	Lisa Baldez Defying Convention: US Resistance to the UN Treaty on Women's Rights (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014)
2014	Jeffrey Hilgert Hazard or Hardship: Crafting Global Norms on the Right to Refuse Unsafe Work (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013)
2014	Jo Becker Campaigning for Justice: Human Rights and Advocacy in Practice (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013)
2013	Jacqui True, University of Auckland The Political Economy of Violence Against Women (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012)
2012	Richard Price Rainforest Warriors: Human Rights on Trial (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011)
2011	Karen Engle, University of Texas Austin The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development: Rights, Culture and Strategy
2010	Richard P. Hiskes The Human Rights to a Green Future: Environmental Rights and Intergenerational Justice (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009)
2010	Shadi Mokhtari After Abu Ghraib: Exploring Human Rights in the Americas and the Middle East (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009)
2009	Barbara Bennett Woodhouse Hidden in Plain Sight: The Tragedy of Children's Rights from Ben Franklin to Lionel Tate (Princeton University Press, 2008)
2007	Stephen Hopgood, University of London Keepers of the Flame: Understanding Amnesty International
2006	Eric Stover, University of California, Berkeley The Witnesses: War Crimes and the Promise of Justice in the Hague (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005)
2004	Rhoda Howard-Hassmann FRSC, Wilfrid Laurier University Compassionate Canadians: Civic Leaders Discuss Human Rights (University of Toronto Press, 2003)
2003	Richard Claude, University of Maryland Science in the Service of Human Rights (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002)