Legal rights
By: Pavlos Eleftheriadis.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780199545285
Subjects: Law -- Philosophy; Law -- Methodology; Jurisprudence
Description: Understanding the nature and role of rights is a central issue in the philosophy of practical reason. Asking how legal rights relate to their moral counterparts, this book criticises existing analytic models and presents a new theory based on the idea of public reason.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: History and theory; title: Descriptions and constructions; title: The practical argument; title: Rights in law; title: Obligation and permission; title: Legal relations; title: The right to property; title: Freedom through law; title: Rights in legal deliberation.