Brian Greenhill is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College. His primary research interest is in the effects that economic globalization and the continuing development of international institutions have on the development of human rights practices. At Dartmouth he teaches courses on human rights, globalization, international institutions and quantitative methods.

"Brian Greenhill shows that it takes a network of IGOs to transmit human rights norms internationally. This is a sophisticated contribution that challenges accounts of norm transmission that rely on a few powerful actors, such as the US or the EU. Greenhill also challenges the World Society tradition, which tallies memberships and meetings, but fails to account for the broader organizational ecology in which individual intergovernmental organizations are situated. Economically written and persuasively supported, this is an example of the cutting edge in diffusion studies today." -Beth A. Simmons, Harvard University

"This book is a much-needed investigation of the ways in which the variety of international institutions influence human rights practices around the world. Greenhill's findings are important for the study of human rights and the networks of international actors who attempt to advance them." -Jon Pevehouse, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"Transmitting Rights is one of the most important new books in a long time on international, governmentally-run, human rights organizations. These organizations, growing in number, now create networks among states that can influence how governments behave, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse. States in these organizations learn from the actions of their peers, and this learning effect can have both positive and deleterious consequences for human rights-a finding that puts into sharp relief the optimism expressed by so many scholars that the proliferation of international organizations is a good thing, and that universal membership in these organizations should be a bedrock of international law." -Emilie M. Hafner-Burton, University of California-San Diego

"Very few scholars can pull off the high-wire act that Brian Greenhill exhibits so gracefully in his latest work. Nothing could be more important than the fulfillment of human rights and very little more mystifying than the veritable alphabet soup of international organizations in existence today. Greenhill shows that that these 'clubs' have absorbed and diffused a human rights norm that profoundly shapes the behavior of their member states. Along the way, we are drawn into the nuances of everything from Bahrain's decision making to the enforcement of gay rights. It's a masterful study and a must-read for human rights' scholars, or anyone with the least bit of intellectual curiosity." - Zachary Elkins, University of Texas-Austin