Rights and Hohfeldian analysis -- Normative constraints -- Deontic and alethic concepts -- The relational nature of rights -- Rights, reasons, and persons -- Rights conflict -- Right holders : present -- Right holders : past and future -- A final comparison
Summary
What is it to have a right? This book defends an alternative to traditional views, the justified-constraint theory of rights. It also solves the puzzle of the relational nature of rights. It gives a systematic account of an important alternative to the best theories of rights in the literature
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-248) and index
