Rights: Concepts and Contexts
The International Library of Essays on Rights
Series Editor: Tom Campbell
Titles in the Series:
Sexuality and Rights
Nicholas Bamforth
Rights: Concepts and Contexts
Brian H. Bix and Horacio Spector
Disability Rights
Peter Blanch
Democratic Rights
Corey Brettschneider
The Right to a Fair Trial
Thorn Brooks
Global Minority Rights
Joshua Castellino
Indigenous Rights
Anthony J. Connolly
Civil Rights and Security
David Dyzenhaus
Language and Cultural Rights
Leslie Green
Human Rights and Corporations
David Kinley
Genocide and Human Rights
Mark Lattimer
Animal Rights
Clare Palmer
Gender and Rights
Deborah L. Rhode and Carol Sanger
Health Rights
Michael J. Selgelid and Thomas Pogge
Citizenship Rights
Jo Shaw
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Manisuli Ssenyonjo
Theories of Rights
C.L. Ten
Bills of Rights
Mark Tushnet
Environmental Rights
Steve Vanderheiden
First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing
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Bix, Brian H.
Rights : concepts and contexts. - (The international
library of essays on rights)
1. Human rights.
I. Title II. Series III. Spector, Horacio.
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2011940230
ISBN 9781409440482 (hbk)
Acknowledgements
Ashgate would like to thank our researchers and the contributing authors who provided copies, along with the following for their permission to reprint copyright material.
Brian H. Bix (2009), Ross and Olivecrona on Rights, Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy, , pp. 103-19. Copyright 2009 Brian H. Bix.
Cambridge Law Journal for the essay: N.E. Simmonds (1995), The Analytical Foundations of Justice, Cambridge Law Journal, , pp. 306-41.
Cambridge University Press for the essays: William A. Edmundson (2004), A Right to Do Wrong? Two Conceptions of Moral Rights, in An Introduction to Rights, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 133-42. Copyright 2004 William A. Edmundson; Aharon Barak (2012), Proportionality Stricto Sensu (Balancing), in Proportionality, Constitutional Rights and their Limitations, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 340-70. Copyright 2012 Aharon Barak.
John Wiley and Sons for the essays: Leif Wenar (2005), The Nature of Rights, Philosophy and Public Affairs, , pp. 223-52; Siegfried Van Duffel (2012), The Nature of Rights Debate Rests on a Mistake, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, , pp. 104-23. Copyright 2012 Siegfried Van Duffel; Jeremy Waldron (2003), Security and Liberty: The Image of Balance, Journal of Political Philosophy, , pp. 191-210.
Margaret Gilbert (2010), Giving Claim-Rights Their Due, in B. Bix and H. Spector (eds), Rights: Concepts and Contexts, Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 301-23. Copyright 2012 Margaret Gilbert.
Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, Queens University for the essay: Sean Coyle (2005), Protestant Political Theory and the Significance of Rights, Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, , pp. 551-84.
Oxford Publishing Limited for the essay: Hillel Steiner (2008), Are There Still Any Natural Rights?, in M.H. Kramer, C. Grant, B. Colburn and A. Hatzistravrou (eds), The Legacy of H.L.A. Hart: Legal, Political, and Moral Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 239-50. Copyright 2008 Hillel Steiner.
Oxford University Press for the essays: Matthew H. Kramer and Hillel Steiner (2007), Theories of Rights: Is There a Third Way?, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, , pp. 281-310; Alon Harel (1997), What Demands are Rights? An Investigation into the Relation between Rights and Reasons, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, , pp. 110-14; Moshe Cohen-Eliya and Iddo Porat (2010), American Balancing and German Proportionality: The Historical Origins, ICON: International Journal of Constitutional Law, , pp. 263-86. Copyright 2010 Moshe Cohen-Eliya and Iddo Porat; Stephen Darwall (2012), Bipolar Obligation, in Russ Shafer-Landau (ed.), Oxford Studies in Metaethics, , Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 333-57. Copyright 2012 Oxford University Press.
Oxford University Press and British Journal for Politics and International Relations for the essay: Gerald F. Gaus (2006), The Rights Recognition Thesis: Defending and Extending Green, in M. Dimovia-Cookson and W. Mander (eds), T.H. Green: Metaphysics, Ethics and Political Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 209-35.
Sage Publications for the essay: Pablo Gilabert (2011), Humanist and Political Perspectives on Human Rights, Political Theory, , pp. 439-67. Copyright 2011 Sage Publications.
Social Theory and Practice for the essay: David Lyons (2006), Rights and Recognition, Social Theory and Practice, , pp. 1-15. Copyright 2006 Social Theory and Practice.
Springer for the essay: Christopher Heath Wellman (1995), On Conflicts Between Rights, Law and Philosophy, , pp. 271-95.
Transnational Law Review for the essay: Joseph Raz (2010), Human Rights in the Emerging World Order, Transnational Law Review, , pp. 31-41.
University of Chicago Press for the essay: Gopal Sreenivasan (2010), Duties and Their Direction, Ethics, , pp. 465-94. Copyright 2010 University of Chicago Press.
University of Michigan for the essay: Morton J. Horwitz (1996), Natural Law and Natural Rights, in Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns (eds), Legal Rights: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, pp. 39-51. Copyright 1996 University of Michigan.
