Civil Rights - Rethinking Their Natural Foundation

Reconceives civil rights as a set of legal guarantees that all will be included in the legal, political, economic and social projects central to civil society.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. The antidiscrimination principle and its discontents; 2. Residues of injustice: formal equality and civil rights; 3. Toward a jurisprudence of civil rights; 4. A frayed quilt: our lost, imperfect, and unimagined civil rights; 5. Protecting rights to enter: constitutional rights and civil rights in conflict; Conclusion.

About the author

Robin L. West is the Haas Professor of Law and Philosophy at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. She is a member of the Law Culture and Humanities Association, from whom she was recently honored with a lifetime achievement award. She is also a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is the author of Normative Jurisprudence: An Introduction (Cambridge, 2011) and Teaching Law (Cambridge, 2013), and is co-editor, with Cynthia Bowman, of the International Research Handbook on Feminist Jurisprudence (forthcoming).

Summary

The book reconceives civil rights as a set of legal guarantees that all will be included in the legal, political, economic and social projects central to civil society. We are all entitled to the protections of law against violence, to a high quality education, to decent employment, and to necessary assistance with our caregiving.

Product details

• Authors: Robin L. West, Robin L. (Georgetown University West, West Robin L.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9781108486019
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48601-9
• No. of pages: 276
• Series: Cambridge Studies on Civil Rig; Cambridge Studies on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous; Rechtsgeschichte, USA, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte, Recht: Menschenrechte und Bürgerrechte, Human rights & civil liberties law, LAW / Jurisprudence, Legal History, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Law: Human rights and civil liberties