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What is a 'Human Right'?Michael J. PerryEmory University School of Law; University of San Diego - School of Law and Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies April 28, 2011 Emory Public Law Research Paper No. 11-150 San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 11-055 Abstract: Talk about “rights” - “rights-talk” - is ubiquitous. However, as Lloyd Weinreb has observed: “Not the least of our difficulties when we think about rights is that, despite their ubiquity in our discourse, it is unclear just what a right is.” A clarification of rights-talk is therefore in order. In our time, the principal rights-talk is about “human” rights. The principal question that engages me in this paper: In the context of human-rights-talk, what are we talking about when, today, we talk about “rights”? about “human” rights? about “international” human rights? Other questions I address in this paper: When and where is a human right a *legal* right - in a meaningfully practical sense of legal? In what sense are human rights *moral* rights? Are so-called “moral” rights really rights? This paper is a draft of a chapter of a book-in-progress: an introduction to, and overview of, the morality and law of international human rights. For a related paper (chapter), which I am posting to SSRN at the same time I am posting this paper, see “The Grounds of Human Rights”, http://ssrn.com/abstract=1824667.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 12 working papers seriesDate posted: April 29, 2011 ; Last revised: June 6, 2012Suggested CitationContact Information
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