First, to provide a critical legal examination of the liberal state and liberal rights in the law, and secondly, to present a systematic alternative to liberal approaches to both the law and rights, grounded in a left wing conception of human dignity.
Matthew McManus is a Professor of Politics at Whitman College and the author of Making Human Dignity Central to International Human Rights Law and The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism, amongst other books.
Part One: Liberalism and Its Critics.- Chapter One: Liberal Rights and their Critics.- Chapter Two: Critics of Liberal Rights.- Chapter Three: The Limitations of Liberalism and Liberal Rights.- Part Two: A Critical Legal Approach to Dignity, Law, and Rights.- Chapter Four: Dignified Self-Authorship and a Critical Legal Model of Rights.- Chapter Five: Rethinking the Ontology of Law and Rights on Critical Legal Lines.- Bibliography