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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press
1997.
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| Series: | Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.14640 |
| 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780472023615 0472023616 1282437755 9781282437753 9786612437755 6612437758 0472106333 9780472084715 0472084712 |