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Legal rights : historical and philosophical perspectives /

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 b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sarat, Austin, Kearns, Thomas R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1997.
Colección:Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.