Rights and Right-Holding - A Philosophical Investigation

Rights and Right-Holding presents a rigorous philosophical investigation of the two phenomena mentioned in its title. The book engages with a number of key topics, including the Hohfeldian analysis of legal and moral positions and the longstanding debates between the Interest Theory of right-holding and the Will Theory of right-holding.

About the author

Matthew H. Kramer is Professor of Legal & Political Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. He is the Director of the Cambridge Forum for Legal & Political Philosophy, and he has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 2014. His work covers numerous areas of political, moral, and legal philosophy. He is the author of nineteen books (three of them co-authored), and he is the co-editor of four additional books.

Summary

Rights and Right-Holding presents a rigorous philosophical investigation of the two phenomena mentioned in its title. The book engages with a number of key topics, including the Hohfeldian analysis of legal and moral positions and the longstanding debates between the Interest Theory of right-holding and the Will Theory of right-holding.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew H. Kramer, Matthew H. (Professor of Legal and Politic Kramer
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.2024
• EAN: 9780198891222
• ISBN: 978-0-19-889122-2
• No. of pages: 432
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, LAW / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law