Revisiting rights

by Sarat, Austin

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Full title :Revisiting rights / edited by Austin Sarat.

Summary

Rights and rights talk have a long and storied history and have occupied a crucial place in the ideology of liberal legalism. With the development of Critical Legal Studies in the 1970s and 80s, rights were subject to extensive critique. Yet not long after that critique rights were rehabilitated by feminists and Critical Race Theorists. Today, scholars are investigating the role of rights in social movements, in legal consciousness, in organizations, in the international arena, etc. This volume of "Studies in Law, Politics, and Society" contains a Special Issue on rights. It brings together the work of leading scholars to think about the nature, utility and limits of rights. This work takes stock of the field, charts its progress and points the way for its future development.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2009.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Emerald
Place of Publication:Bingley, UK
Language:eng
Publication Date:2009.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (ix, 175 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781848559318, 1848559313
oclc:ocn646835621
LC Classification:K3240
Dewey Decimal:342.08/5

Front cover; Special Issue Revisiting Rights; Copyright page; Contents; List of contributors; Editorial board; Chapter 1. Much ado about nothing? The emptiness of rights' claims in the twenty-first century United States; Introduction; The varying historical use of rights; To claim a right -- possible meanings; The prevalence of rights' claims; The empirical challenge to the efficacy of rights' claims; Rights as preferences; Rights as contextual preferences; Knowledge of rights; First amendment; Rights and public opinion; Civil rights11; Abortion12; School prayer; Rights of criminal defendants.

Free speech and pressConclusion -- A right for all seasons?; Notes; References; Chapter 2. The right's revolution?: Conservatism and the meaning of rights in modern America; Introduction; What grassroots rights were not; From privilege to powerlessness: rights and the politics of victimhood; Variations on rights; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Cases Cited:; Chapter 3. Is there an empirical literature on rights?; Introduction; Rosenberg's The Hollow Hope; McCann on Rights at Work; Merry's Human Rights and Gender Violence; Some recommendations; Notes; Acknowledgments; Referen…