Rights

Robin West, Georgetown University Law Center, USA David Luban, Ronald Dworkin, Morton J. Horwitz, Mary E. Becker, Peter Gabel, Mary Ann Glendon, Michael J. Sandel, Chai R. Feldblum, Charles Taylor, Joseph Raz, Patricia J. Williams, Robin L. West, Will Kymlicka, Elizabeth B. Clark, Akhil Reed Amar, Steven J. Heyman, Susan Bandes, Eva Feder Kittay, Lisa Heinzerling,, Alan M. Dershowitz.

• Contents: The Liberal Rights tradition: The Warren Court and the concept of a right, David Luban; Unremunerated rights: whether and how Roe should be overruled, Ronald Dworkin. Rights Critiques: Rights, Morton J. Horwitz; The politics of women's wrongs and the Bill of 'Rights': a Bicentennial perspective, Mary E. Becker; The phenomenology of rights-consciousness and the pact of the withdrawn selves, Peter Gabel; Rights in 20th-century constitutions, Mary Ann Glendon; The constitution of the procedural republic: liberal rights and civic virtues, Michael J. Sandel; Moral argument and liberal toleration: abotrion and homosexuality, Michael J. Sandel; A progressive moral case for same-sex marriage, Chai R. Feldblum; Can Canada survive the Charter?, Charles Taylor; Rights and politics, Joseph Raz. Aspirational Rights: Possibilities and Histories: Alchemical notes: reconstructing ideals from deconstructed rights, Patricia J. Williams; Constitutional scepticism, Robin L. West; Liberal individualism and liberal neutrality, Will Kymlicka; Religion, rights and difference in the early women's rights movement, Elizabeth B. Clark; 40 acres and a mule: a republican theory of minimal entitlements, Akhil Reed Amar; The first duty of government: protection, liberty and the 14th Amendment, Steven J. Heyman; The negative constitution: a critique, Susan Bandes; Taking dependency seriously: the Family and Medical Leave Act considered in light of the social organization of dependency work and gender equality, Eva Feder Kittay; The rights of statistical persons, Lisa Heinzerling. Rights Redux: The case of the Spekuncean explorers: revisited, Robin L. West and Alan M. Dershowitz; Name index.

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