Clarifying questions about the nature of rights

Jurisprudence 12 (1):47-68 (2020)
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This Article critiques the debate over the nature of rights on the grounds that theorists have failed to specify and defend an ultimate aim, predominantly deployed a standard of success–ext...

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The Nature of Rights.Leif Wenar - 2005 - Philosophy and Public Affairs 33 (3):223-252.
The Nature of Claim-Rights.Leif Wenar - 2013 - Ethics 123 (2):202-229.
Duties and their direction.Gopal Sreenivasan - 2010 - Ethics 120 (3):465-494.

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