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008 110712s2012 nyu b 001 0 eng
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020 _a9781107007383
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100 1 _aJovanovi�c, Miodrag A.
245 1 0 _aCollective rights :
_ba legal theory /
_cMiodrag A. Jovanovi�c.
260 _aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2012.
300 _aviii, 230 pages ;
_c24 cm
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 202-217) and index.
505 0 _aWhat 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.
520 _a"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"--
600 _2on order
650 0 _aHuman rights.
650 7 _aHuman rights.
_2fast
856 4 1 _3Table of contents
_uhttp://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=024726364&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
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