Collective rights : a legal theory / Miodrag A. Jovanovi�c.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 0511843941
- ISBN: 1139217771
- ISBN: 1139224298
- ISBN: 9780511843945
- ISBN: 9781139217774
- ISBN: 9781139224291
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 230 pages)
- Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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General Note: | CatMonthString:april.19 Multi-User. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML), electronic book. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: Internet. |
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Issuing Body Note: | Made available online by EBSCO. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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