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. Civil rights. Civil rights -- Philosophy. Human rights. Human rights -- Philosophy. 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

Table of 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.

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