Rights To and Not To
56 Pages Posted: 12 Sep 2011 Last revised: 22 Dec 2015
Abstract
When and why should a “right to” include a “right not to”? If a person has a right to engage in an activity or to receive a particular form of procedural protection, under what circumstances should he also have a right not to engage in that activity or to refuse that process? The basic project of this Article is to show why these questions are important in American constitutional law, to explore how doctrine and scholarship have implicitly and sometimes awkwardly dealt with them, and to suggest normative frameworks with which they can be answered.
Keywords: Constitutional law, rights, autonomy
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Blocher, Joseph, Rights To and Not To. 100 Cal. L. Rev. 761 (2012), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1926235
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