Human Rights vs Special Rights

Abstract

Human rights (and its conceptual precursors) are often assigned superior normative status in law and in political theory. This panel brings together historians of political thought and contemporary IR theorists to explore the theoretical and conceptual range of arguments for human rights vs Special rights or vice versa and to critcally examine contrasting arguments

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Michael Oakeshott, Magna Carta and Human Rights	View Paper Details
Edmund Burke, The Law of Nations and 'Humanitarian' Intervention in Revolutionary France	View Paper Details
The Problem of Obligation and the Norms of Jus Cogens	View Paper Details