Professor Edquist-Whelan teaches courses on global politics and political theory, including The Global Order, International Law & Organizations, International Human Rights, U.S Foreign Policy, Political Theory, and Normative Political Economy. He also leads the Hendrix Model UN program. His research interests are in international history, the United Nations system, and international human rights law and institutions, and especially the intersections between human rights and development. He is the co-author (with Jack Donnelly) of International Human Rights (5th, 6th and 7th editions, Routlege), Indivisible Human Rights: A History (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010) and of peer-reviewed articles appearing in Human Rights Quarterly, Humanity, and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies.