Human Rights for Liberals

13 Pages Posted: 13 Oct 2009 Last revised: 2 Feb 2015

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Pavlos Eleftheriadis

New York University Abu Dhabi; NYU School of Law

Date Written: October 9, 2009

Abstract

James Griffin’s rich and elegant study, On Human Rights (Oxford, 2008), is a superbly accomplished book. Its range is impressive. It offers a discussion of the general status of values, a general theory of rights, concrete accounts of the right to welfare, the right to privacy, the right to life, the link with democracy and the idea of group rights, among other things. At every stage we are treated to a clear, rigorous and elegant discussion full of broad learning and penetrating judgment, which readers of Griffin’s earlier books have perhaps learned to expect. Yet, the view of human rights that Griffin defends is strangely narrow and unfamiliar in that it is not connected to any political or legal framework.

Suggested Citation

Eleftheriadis, Pavlos, Human Rights for Liberals (October 9, 2009). Global Justice, Forthcoming, Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 41/2009, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1486080

Pavlos Eleftheriadis (Contact Author)

New York University Abu Dhabi ( email )

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Abu Dhabi
United Arab Emirates

NYU School of Law ( email )

40 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012-1099
United States

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