Collective Rights: A Legal Theory - Hardcover

Jovanović, Miodrag A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107007380 ISBN 13: 9781107007383

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

In a departure from the mainstream methodology of a positivist-oriented jurisprudence, Collective Rights provides the first legal-theoretical treatment of this area. It advances a normative-moral standpoint of 'value collectivism' which goes against the traditional political philosophy of liberalism and the dominant ideas of liberal multiculturalism. Moreover, it places a theoretical account of collective rights within the larger debate between proponents of different rights theories. By exploring why 'collective rights' should be differentiated from similar legal concepts, the relationship between collective and individual rights and why groups should be recognised as the third distinctive type of right-holders, it presents the topic as connected to the larger philosophical debate about international law of human rights, most notably to the problem of universality of rights.

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About the Author

Miodrag A. Jovanović is an Аssociate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade. He is also a scholar of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and serves the president of the Serbian section of the International Association of Legal and Social Philosophy (IVR).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107007380
• ISBN 13: 9781107007383
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240