Cargando…
Revisiting rights /
Rights and rights talk have a long and storied history and have occupied a crucial place in the ideology of liberal legalism. With the development of Critical Legal Studies in the 1970s and 80s, rights were subject to extensive critique. Yet not long after that critique rights were rehabilitated by...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Otros Autores: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Bingley, UK ; [Boston] :
Emerald,
2009.
|
| Colección: | Studies in law, politics, and society ;
v. 48, special issue. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front cover; Special Issue Revisiting Rights; Copyright page; Contents; List of contributors; Editorial board; Chapter 1. Much ado about nothing? The emptiness of rights' claims in the twenty-first century United States; Introduction; The varying historical use of rights; To claim a right
- possible meanings; The prevalence of rights' claims; The empirical challenge to the efficacy of rights' claims; Rights as preferences; Rights as contextual preferences; Knowledge of rights; First amendment; Rights and public opinion; Civil rights11; Abortion12; School prayer; Rights of criminal defendants.
- Free speech and pressConclusion
- A right for all seasons?; Notes; References; Chapter 2. The right's revolution?: Conservatism and the meaning of rights in modern America; Introduction; What grassroots rights were not; From privilege to powerlessness: rights and the politics of victimhood; Variations on rights; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Cases Cited:; Chapter 3. Is there an empirical literature on rights?; Introduction; Rosenberg's The Hollow Hope; McCann on Rights at Work; Merry's Human Rights and Gender Violence; Some recommendations; Notes; Acknowledgments; References.
- Chapter 4. Rights at risk: why the right not to be tortured is important to youTorquemada's ghost; The ''new paradigm''; Lighting up the dark side; The enduring torture scandal; Defining rights; What good are rights?; Firsts among equals; The right not to be tortured; Official torture and cruelty; What is wrong with torture?; Unintended benefits of American torture; References; Chapter 5. Revisiting rights across contexts: Fat, health, and antidiscrimination law; Introduction: Antidiscrimination, rights, and health; Revisiting rights: What do rights do?
- Antidiscrimination in health care: The case of fat acceptance advocacyConclusion: Beyond the possession metaphor for both rights and health; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 6. Genocidal rights; Introduction; The right to commit genocide: blood, race, and time; Civil, sovereign, and human rights; The genocide convention; Conclusions; Notes; References.