Legal rights : historical and philosophical perspectives /

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Imprint:Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1997.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:The Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought
Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought.
Subject:Civil rights -- History.
Civil rights -- Philosophy.
Human rights -- History.
Human rights -- Philosophy.
LAW -- Natural Law.
PHILOSOPHY -- General.
Civil rights.
Civil rights -- Philosophy.
Human rights.
Human rights -- Philosophy.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11206850
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Other authors / contributors:Sarat, Austin.
Kearns, Thomas R.
ISBN:9780472023615
0472023616
1282437755
9781282437753
9786612437755
6612437758
0472106333
9780472084715
0472084712
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
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.
Other form:Print version: Legal rights. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press, ©1996 0472106333