Collective rights : a legal theory / Miodrag A. Jovanović.
2012
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Collective rights : a legal theory / Miodrag A. Jovanović.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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1 online resource (viii, 230 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
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What it means for a theory of collective rights to be legal
reflections on methodology
Theories of rights and collectives as right-holders
Collective rights as a distinctive legal concept
Are there universal collective rights?
Conclusion : collectives as the third type of right-holders.
reflections on methodology
Theories of rights and collectives as right-holders
Collective rights as a distinctive legal concept
Are there universal collective rights?
Conclusion : collectives as the third type of right-holders.
Summary
In a departure from the mainstream methodology of a positivist-oriented jurisprudence, Collective Rights provides the first legal-theoretical treatment of this area. It advances a normative-moral standpoint of 'value collectivism' which goes against the traditional political philosophy of liberalism and the dominant ideas of liberal multiculturalism. Moreover, it places a theoretical account of collective rights within the larger debate between proponents of different rights theories. By exploring why 'collective rights' should be differentiated from similar legal concepts, the relationship between collective and individual rights and why groups should be recognised as the third distinctive type of right-holders, it presents the topic as connected to the larger philosophical debate about international law of human rights, most notably to the problem of universality of rights.
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Cambridge Core.
Language
English
ISBN
9780511843945 ebook
9781107007383 (hardback)
9781107007383 (hardback)
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