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Legal rights : historical and philosophical perspectives / edited by Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thoughtPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1997Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780472023615
  • 0472023616
  • 1282437755
  • 9781282437753
  • 9786612437755
  • 6612437758
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Legal rightsDDC classification:
  • 340/.112 20
LOC classification:
  • JC571
Online resources:
Contents:
Very good memories : self-defense and the imagination of legal rights in early modern England / Annabel Patterson -- Natural law and natural rights / Morton J. Horwitz -- Lincoln, slavery, and rights / William E. Cain -- Rights and needs : the myth of disjunction / Jeremy Waldron -- Justifying the rights of academic freedom in the era of "power/knowledge" / Thomas L. Haskell -- The new jural mind : rights without grounds, without truths, and without things that are truly rightful / Hadley Arkes -- Is the idea of human rights ineliminably religious? / Michael J. Perry -- Rights in the postmodern condition / Pierre Schlag.
Summary: The idea of legal rights today enjoys virtually universal appeal, yet all too often the meaning and significance of rights are poorly understood. The purpose of this volume is to clarify the subject of legal rights by drawing on both historical and philosophical legal scholarship to bridge the gap between these two genres--a gap that has divorced abstract and normative treatments of rights from an understanding of their particular social and cultural contexts. Legal Rights: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives shows that the meaning and extent of rights has been dramatically expanded in.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Very good memories : self-defense and the imagination of legal rights in early modern England / Annabel Patterson -- Natural law and natural rights / Morton J. Horwitz -- Lincoln, slavery, and rights / William E. Cain -- Rights and needs : the myth of disjunction / Jeremy Waldron -- Justifying the rights of academic freedom in the era of "power/knowledge" / Thomas L. Haskell -- The new jural mind : rights without grounds, without truths, and without things that are truly rightful / Hadley Arkes -- Is the idea of human rights ineliminably religious? / Michael J. Perry -- Rights in the postmodern condition / Pierre Schlag.

The idea of legal rights today enjoys virtually universal appeal, yet all too often the meaning and significance of rights are poorly understood. The purpose of this volume is to clarify the subject of legal rights by drawing on both historical and philosophical legal scholarship to bridge the gap between these two genres--a gap that has divorced abstract and normative treatments of rights from an understanding of their particular social and cultural contexts. Legal Rights: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives shows that the meaning and extent of rights has been dramatically expanded in.

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