Voyiakis argues that private law aims to articulate acceptable principles as to when our institutions can hold agents accountable for their choices.
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Community and Collective Rights
- 262 pages
- 10 hours of reading
This book presents an argument for the existence of moral rights held by groups and a resulting account of how to reconcile group rights with individual rights and with the rights of other groups. Throughout, the author shows applications to actual legal and political controversies, thus tying the normative theory to actual legal practice. The author presents collective moral rights as an underlying normative explanation for various legal norms protecting group rights in domestic and international legal contexts. Examples at issue include rights held by indigenous peoples, by trade unions, and by religious and cultural minority groups. The account also bears on contemporary discussions of multiculturalism and recognition, on debates about reasonable accommodation of minority communities, and on claims for third generation human rights. The book will thus be relevant both to theorists and to legal and human rights practitioners interested in related areas. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART I: THE EXISTENCE OF COLLECTIVE MORAL RIGHTS 1. Introduction 2. Collectivities as Moral Rights-Holders 3. Collective Interests and Collective Rights PART II: MORAL CONDITIONS FOR COLLECTIVE RIGHTS 4. Conflicting Rights 5. The Service Principle 6. The Mutuality Principle 7. Rights to Exit and Membership Control PART III: REALISING COLLECTIVE RIGHTS 8. Imperfect Collectivities 9. Toward a Community of Communities