Recent publications related to the study of human rights in Canada (with some international publications to consider the broader literature on this topic).

University of Pennsylvania Press, Studies in Human Rights (series)

Georgetown University Press, Advanving Human Rights (series)

UC Berkeley, Human Rights Syllabi for the College Classroom

Articles:

• Adams, Eric M. "Building a Law of Human Rights: Roncarelli V Duplessis in Canadian Constitutional Culture." McGill Law Journal 55 (2010): 437-60.

• Behiels, Michael. "Canada and the Implementation of International Instruments of Human Rights: A Federalist Conundrum, 1919-1982." In Framing Canadian Federalism: Historical Essays in Honour of John T Saywell, edited by Dimitry Anastakis and P.E. Bryden. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009.

• Brouwer, Ruth Compton. "When Missions Became Development: Ironies of “Ngoization” in Mainstream Canadian Churches in the 1960s." Canadian Historical Review 91, no. 4 (2010): 661-93.

• Clément, Dominique. "Equality Deferred: Sex Discrimination and the Newfoundland Human Rights State." Acadiensis  (2012).

• Clément, Dominique. "The Evolution of Human Rights in Canada: From "Niggardly Acceptance" to Enthusiastic Embrace." Human Rights Quarterly (2012).

• Harrington, Joanna. "Canada and the United Nations Human Rights Council: Dissent and Division." University of New Brunswick Law Journal 60 (2010): 1-47.

• Lacroix, Patrick. "Between Identity and Ideology: Catholicism and Minority Rights in Post-War Canada." 2010.

• Lamarche, Lucie. "Economic and Social Rights in an Era of Globalization and Governance Arrangements in Canada: The Need to Re-Visit the Issue of the Implementation of International Human Rights Law." In Is Our House in Order? Canada's Implementation of International Law, edited by Chios Carmody. Montreal-Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010.
  

Books

• Ducharme, Michel. Le Concept De Liberté Au Canada À L'époque Des Révolutions Atlantiques 1776-1838. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010.
  
  
• Lui, Andrew. Why Canada Cares: Human Rights and Foreign Policy in Theory and Practice. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012.

• Moore, Christopher. The British Columbia Court of Appeal: The First Hundred Years, 1910-2010. Vancouer: UBC Press, 2010.

• Patrias, Carmela. Jobs and Justice: Fighting Discrimination in Wartime Canada, 1939-1945. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011.

• Pulkingham, Jane, ed. Human Welfare, Rights, and Social Activism: Rethinking the Legacy of J.S. Woodsworth. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.

• Shepaprd, Colleen. Inclusive Equality : The Relational Dimensions of Systemic Discrimination in Canada. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010.

• Swaigner, Jonathan, ed. The Alberta Supreme Court at 100: History & Authority. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2010.

• Thompson, Andrew S. In Defence of Principles: Ngos and Human Rights in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010.
  
• Yalden, Maxwell. Transforming Rights: Reflections from the Front Lines. Toronto: University of Toronto, 2009.

• Walker, Barrington. Race on Trial: Black Defendants in Ontario's Criminal Courts, 1858-1958. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.

• David Webster. Fire and the Full Moon: Canada and Indonesia in a Decolonizing World (UBC Press, 2009).

• Warner, Tom. Losing Control: Canada's Social Conservatives in the Age of Rights. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2010.

• Burke, Roland. Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights. Philidelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.
  
• Hoffman, Stefan-Ludwig, ed. Human Rights in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

• Howard-Hassmann, Rhoda E. "Universal Women's Rights since 1970: The Centrality of Autonomy and Agency." Journal of Human Rights 10, no. 1 (2011): 433-49.
  
• Hynes, Patricia, MIchele Lamb, Damien Short, and Matthew Waites. Sociology and Human Rights. Toronto: Routledge, 2011.

• Lauren, Paul Gordon. The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.

• Moyn, Samual. The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History. Boston: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.

• Quataert, Jean H. Advocating Dignity. Philidelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.
  Serrano, Monica, and Vesselin Popovski, eds. Human Rights in the Americas. New York: United Nations University Press, 2010.

• Snyder, Sarah. Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War: A Transnational History of the Helsinki Network. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

• Stammers, Neil. Human Rights and Social Movements. London: Pluto Press, 2009.