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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Theories of rights"”.
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Rights and climate change mitigation - why the individual rights approach to climate change mitigation is not the right approach
This dissertation examines the arguments of rights recently invoked in lawsuits addressing duties to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. It asks whether these arguments correspond to how rights are typically understood in terms of philosophical ideas of rights. This question is not examined from a …
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Parties to gamete donation: from bounded selves to relational persons.
The task of legally characterising complex interpersonal relationships presents a challenge to lawyers, legislators and academics. In law, relationships between parties are commonly characterised in terms of competing sets of rights. The parties are characterised as adversaries, in conflict, and …
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Do Rights-Based Moralities Cause Climate Change? Balancing the Rights of Current Persons and the Needs of Future Generations
This thesis explores the relationship between rights-based moral systems and climate change. It argues that supporters of rights-based moralities must give the realisation of rights priority over non-rights-based moral concerns. It further contends that future persons cannot possess rights that …
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Environmental Rights
In this thesis I address the claim that theories of moral rights are incompatible with environmental concerns. This claim is often made on the grounds that rights are too individualistic and human-centred. I attempt to answer this, not on the grounds that it misrepresents all theories of rights or …