Rejecting Rights

Sonu Bedi is Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. Bedi works in the intersection of law and political theory. His publications include Political Contingency: Studying the Unexpected, the Accidental, and the Unforeseen (co-editor, 2007) and articles in constitutional law and political philosophy.

• Introduction; Part I. Rights: 1. The classic conception of rights: the 'democratic deficit'; 2. Reflexive rights: jeopardizing freedom, equality, and democratic debate; Part II. Justification in Theory: 3. The turn to justification; 4. A theory of justification: specifying the appropriate legislative purpose; 5. Rejecting rights; Part III. Justification in Practice: 6. Rejecting the constitutional rights to property and religion; 7. Rejecting the constitutional right to privacy; 8. Equal protection and judicial review; Conclusion; Bibliography.

'This is an important book, raising a frontal challenge to the regnant paradigm of liberal political thought. And to top it off, it's a genuine pleasure to read!' Bruce Ackerman, Yale University