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'Rights and Right-Holding' presents a rigorous philosophical investigation of the two phenomena mentioned in its title. The book engages with a number of key topics, including the Hohfeldian analysis of legal and moral positions and the longstanding debates between the Interest Theory of right-holding and the Will Theory of right-holding.
Cover -- Rights and Right-Holding -- Copyright -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 The Scope of the Book -- 1.2 A Note on Formalization -- 1.3 A Note on Methodology and on the Standards for Success -- 1.3.1 A Misunderstanding of Appeals to Ordinary Understandings -- 1.3.2 Tu Quoque -- 1.3.3 Conjectures from an Armchair -- 1.3.4 More from Wenar's Armchair -- 1.3.5 Standards for Success -- 1.4 Past Publications -- 2. The Hohfeldian Analysis of Legal and Moral Relationships -- 2.1 Some Remarks on General Terminology -- 2.2 Correlativity -- 2.3 The Diagonals: Duality and Contradictoriness
2.4 Claim-​Rights and Duties -- 2.4.1 Contents and Conduct -- 2.4.2 Deontic Conflicts -- 2.4.3 Contradictions -- 2.4.4 Unenforcedness and Unenforceability -- 2.5 Liberties and No-​Rights -- 2.5.1 Unpaired Liberties and Paired Liberties -- 2.5.2 The Contents of Liberties -- 2.5.3 Exercises Protected by Claim-​Rights -- 2.5.4 Claim-​Rights without Liberties -- 2.5.5 Quantification over Parties -- 2.5.5.1 Some Clarification of Disjunctive Universal Quantification -- 2.5.5.2 Liberties and Distributive Universal Quantification -- 2.5.6 Limits on Duality -- 2.5.7 No-​Rights
2.5.7.1 Hohfeld's Misstep -- 2.5.7.2 The Reality of No-​Rights -- 2.6 Powers and Liabilities -- 2.6.1 More on Evaluative Neutrality -- 2.6.2 Quasi-​Powers and Quasi-​Liabilities -- 2.6.2.1 Insentient Forces and Entities -- 2.6.2.2 The Applicability of General Norms -- 2.6.3 Quantification Afresh -- 2.6.3.1 Quantification over Sets of Conditions for Changes in Legal Relationships -- 2.6.3.2 Quantification over Sets of Changes -- 2.6.3.3 Quantification over Potential Bearers of Liabilities -- 2.7 Immunities and Disabilities -- 2.7.1 The Importance of Immunities: Bills of Rights
2.7.1.1 A Qualification: Wrongdoing in Law-​Administration -- 2.7.1.2 Disabilities Imposed on Lawmakers -- 2.7.2 The Importance of Immunities: Securing Other Entitlements -- 3. In Defense of the Correlativity Axiom -- 3.1 A Glimpse of the Interest Theory of Right-​Holding -- 3.2 The Axiomaticity of the Correlativity Axiom -- 3.2.1 Compliance with Legal Requirements -- 3.2.1.1 Claim-​Rights Held Only by a System of Governance -- 3.2.1.2 Collectivities as Holders of Claim-​Rights -- 3.2.1.3 A Counterexample? -- 3.2.2 Conformity to Moral Requirements -- 3.3 Justificatory Priorities
3.4 Misrepresentations of the Correlativity Axiom -- 3.5 Eleemosynary Duties -- 3.6 More Mistakes by MacCormick -- 3.7 Generality versus Concreteness -- 3.8 Claim-​Rights versus Interests -- 3.9 Stages of Emergence -- 3.10 No Wrongs without Claim-​Rights -- 3.10.1 A Preliminary Clarification -- 3.10.2 A Third-​Party-​Beneficiary Contract -- 3.10.3 A Cheated Prizewinner -- 3.10.4 Overhearing a Falsehood -- 3.10.4.1 Another Misrepresentation of a Legal Judgment -- 3.10.4.2 Ostensible Concessions and Untenable Assertions -- 3.10.4.3 The Correlativity Axiom Disowned? -- 3.10.5 The Palsgraf Problem
Includes bibliographical references and index.