Collective Rights - A Legal Theory

Informationen zum Autor Miodrag A. Jovanovic is an ?ssociate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade. He is also a scholar of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and serves the president of the Serbian section of the International Association of Legal and Social Philosophy (IVR). Klappentext A legal-theoretical account of collective rights, grounded in the normative-moral view of 'value collectivism'. Zusammenfassung In this book! Miodrag A. Jovanovic challenges the widely accepted methodological tools of jurisprudence and offers a case for 'value collectivism' and the connecting of theoretical debates to legal practice. Of interest to legal theorists! political philosophers! international legal experts and constitutionalists. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. What it means for a theory of collective rights to be legal - reflections on methodology; 2. Theories of rights and collectives as right-holders; 3. Collective rights as a distinctive legal concept; 4. Appendix: are there universal collective rights?; Conclusion: collectives as the third type of right-holders.

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• Authors: Miodrag A. Jovanovi, Miodrag A Jovanovic, Miodrag A. Jovanovic, Miodrag A. Jovanović
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.01.2012
• EAN: 9781107007383
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00738-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Law, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, Human rights, civil rights, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, Public international law: human rights, Methods, theory and philosophy of law