Legal rights : historical and philosophical perspectives / edited by Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns.

Other author Sarat, Austin.
Other author Kearns, Thomas R.
Format Book
Publication InfoAnn Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press, ©1996.
Descriptionvi, 315 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesAmherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought
Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought. ^A373240
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 95034539
ISBN0472106333 (hc : alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks JC571 .L378 1996 ✔ Available Place Hold