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Rights

edited by Carlos Nino

(The international library of essays in law and legal theory, . Schools ; 8)

Dartmouth, c1992

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This collection of articles on rights covers topics such as: the concept of legal rights; legal rights related to morality; the place of rights in moral theory; and the legal recognition of rights.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 The concept of legal rights and their relation to morality: definition and theory in jurisprudence, H.L.A. Hart
  • Tu-tu, Alf Ross
  • legal analysis and terminology, Arthur L. Corbin
  • the concept of legal liberty, Glanville Williams
  • the correlativity of rights and duties, David Lyons
  • upholding legal rights, Carl P. Wellman
  • children's rights - a test case for theories of rights, Neil MacCormick
  • legal rights, Joseph Raz
  • hard cases, Ronald Dworkin
  • Dworkin on the nature and consequences, James W. Nickel
  • individual rights and collective goods, Robert Alexy
  • an essay on rights, M. Tushnet. Part 2 The place of rights in moral theory: the nature and value of rights, Joel Feinberg
  • rights and autonomy, David Richards
  • the priority of right and ideas of the good, John Rawls
  • equality, Thomas Nagel
  • rights, goals and fairness, Tim Scanlon
  • between utility and rights, H.L.A. Hart
  • are there any absolute rights?, Alan Gewirth
  • rights and agency, Amartya Sen
  • negative and positive freedom, G.C. MacCallum
  • postmordern burgois liberalism, Richard Rorty
  • the communitarian challenge to liberal rights, Carlos S. Nina
  • the structure of proletarian unfreedom, G.A. Cohen. Part 3 Particular rights: the fundamental rights controversy - the essential contradictions of normative constitutional scholarship, P. Brest
  • killing, letting die and the trolley problem, Judith Jarvis Thomson
  • euthanasia, Philippa Foot
  • abortion - identity and loss, Warren Quinn
  • the abortion funding conundrum - inalienable rights, affirmative duties and the dilemma of dependence, Laurence H. Tribe
  • justice and gender, Susan Moller Okin
  • groups and the equal protection clause, Owen Fiss
  • can legal paternalism be ethically justified?, Ernesto Garzon Valdes
  • privacy, morality and the law, W.A. Parent
  • free speech justifications, Kent Greenawalt
  • property, title and redistribution, Tony Honore
  • property rules, liability rules and inaliability - one view of the cathedral, Guido Calabresi and A. Douglas
  • rethinking the theory of legal rights, Jules Coleman
  • constitutional welfare rights and a theory of justice, Frank I. Michelman
  • on health care as a legal right, William Blackstone
  • should trees have standing? - towards rights for natural objects, Christopher D. Stone.

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  • NCID
    BA18238119
  • ISBN
    • 1855211378
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Aldershot
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxxiv, 466 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
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