Rights, Groups, and Self-Invention

Group-Differentiated Rights in Liberal Theory

Eric J. Mitnick (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-8153-9155-5 (ISBN)

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Group-differentiated rights, or rights that attach on the basis of membership in a particular social or cultural group, are an increasingly common and controversial aspect of modern pluralistic legal systems. Eric Mitnick offers the first comprehensive treatment of this important form of right. The book describes and critically assesses the group-differentiated form of 'right' from within analytical, constitutive and liberal theory. It further examines the extent to which group-differentiated rights constitute aspects of human identity, and it asks whether this should be a cause for concern from the perspective of liberal theory. The more detailed normative work advanced in the book contextually applies the constitutive understanding of rights and the principles of liberal membership to particular examples of group-differentiated citizenship. Such examples range from ascriptive statuses such as slavery and alienage, to more affirmative classifications, such as those apparent in the contexts of civil unions and affirmative action, finally to the claims of religious and other cultural groups for official recognition and accommodation of group-based beliefs and practices.

Contents: Preface; Introduction: group-differentiated rights; Collective aspects of legal rights; Law and social categories; Rights and social groups; Liberal membership; The universalist critique; Three models of group-differentiated rights; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	16.01.2018
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Sozialrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
ISBN-10	0-8153-9155-2 / 0815391552
ISBN-13	978-0-8153-9155-5 / 9780815391555
Zustand	Neuware